Re: Managing Address Data

[Alan.Harder@Ebay (Alan Harder)]

> 1.  Where does my address info back-up to?
> 2.  Is there anyway to enter address data on an application on my desktop and
> then sync that to my pilot.

To summarize people's answers and add some of my own:

1. If you use the Backup conduit then your complete AddressDB can be found
   in your backup directory, by default:
   ~/.pilotmgr/Backup/LatestArchive/AddressDB.pdb
   This file is the native pilot db format.

2. In contrib/alan-harder in the pilotmgr distribution you can find a beta
   SyncAB conduit.  This conduit can synchronize you address data to a
   CSV (comma separated values) file.  You can edit this file or add items,
   but it's not the most user friendly format (but good for your typical
   unix hacker :)
   This tool is a full conduit, so you can independently edit your pilot
   and the csv file, and all changes will be integrated.

3. The pi-address program has a good user interface and can directly edit
   the AddressDB.pdb file.  This is probably your best bet for editing data
   on the desktop.  However, this is currently *not* a conduit- ie you
   must (1) load data from pilot, (2) edit data with pi-address and then
   (3) write entire data file back to pilot.  If you edit records on your
   pilot between 1 & 3 then those changes will be lost.

A solaris binary for pi-address can be found at
http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/binaries/misc/

Hopefully someday pi-address can be modified to read/write from the CSV file
used with SyncAB in #2.  Then we could have the combined use of the nice gui
and the ability to synchronize.

Steve.Swales@eng has continued my work on SyncAB to support vcards
(targeted to support the CDE address manager in solaris 7).

	- Alan
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