Re: address db definition

[Ron Marshall - Sun Toronto SE <ron.marshall@Canada>]

Thanks Steve.

Alan pointed me to the place to fine it and I have it working.  Your
work in progress would be great!  Is vcard a public domain software?

Regards,
Ron

Steve Swales wrote:
> 
> Ron,
> 
> SyncAB is a perl script, and it's under the contrib directory in the pilotmgr
> distribution.  This is becuase it's current beta quality.  I am informally
> maintaining this for the moment as Alan is focussed on other things.
> I am gradually improving the vCard handling, but there is a way to go before we
> have full bi-directional sync.  If you want I can send you my work in progress.
> 
> -steve
> 
> >Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 16:34:07 -0400
> >From: Ron Marshall - Sun Toronto SE <ron.marshall@Canada>
> >MIME-Version: 1.0
> >To: Alan Harder <Alan.Harder@Ebay>
> >CC: Greg.Moore@East, pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: address db definition
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >
> >I have been lookin for the SyncAB and cannot find it.  Maybe I don't
> >know where too look, the book mark I have for pilotmanager is
> >"http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/";, is this correct?
> >
> >Is it precompiled for Solaris?
> >
> >Regards,
> >Ron
> >
> >Alan Harder wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'd like to create a script to take the output of the nameslist and
> >> > load it into my pilot.
> >>
> >> Rather than writing a pdb file directly (which would require you to overwrite
> >> the AddressDB on your pilot if you want to install it) you might want to find
> >> a way to add the data to your existing db.
> >>
> >> 2 options:
> >> 1. pilot-link has a program called pilot-addresses which can install and
> >>    delete records in a given category.  Uses a CSV (comma separated values)
> >>    file format.
> >>
> >> 2. SyncAB in the pilotmgr contrib directory.  This can synchronize the
> address
> >>    book with a CSV file.  You could write a fairly simple perl script to take
> >>    nameslist data and put it in your CSV address file.  Then on a hotsync
> >>    the new records would get added to your pilot..
> >>
> >>         - Alan
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