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Re: [PilotMgr] Version of SyncAB with support for Sync'ing BBDB
Sorry for not elaborating. BBDB is the address book in Emacs.
Dinesh
Don Duck Harper writes:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 08:29:34PM -0800, Dinesh Dutt wrote to To pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> :-) Folks,
> :-)
> :-) I am enclosing a modified copy of SyncAB.pm which includes support for BBDB. It
> :-) sync data both ways and updates the BBDB with the records from the AB on
> :-) Palm. I've tried it with a few things and it looks fine, but I'd love to hear
> :-) from you folks about any problems, suggestions for improvements etc. Please
> :-) remember to back up both the BBDB and Palm AB before trying out this stuff.
> :-)
> :-) One potential improvement is to store the actual category name instead of the
> :-) category id in the BBDB field. I'm working on a fix for this. I also have to
> :-) write code to update the AppInfo with any new Categories created in BBDB that
> :-) maybe missing from the Palm.
> :-)
> :-) Supported BBDB file versions are 2 and 3.
> :-)
> :-) For safety's sake, I've called BBDB's file as ".bbdb.sync". You can rename
> :-) configure it to use ".bbdb", if you wish.
> :-)
> :-) Enjoy,
> :-)
> :-) Dinesh
> :-) P.S: SyncAB version 0.96p1 was used as the base version to modify.
>
> Okay, maybe I missed something...what is BBDB?
>
> Don
>
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