From dlm@shivafs.cac.washington.edu Wed Aug 24 09:26:18 1994
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 95 15:40:48 -0800
From: The Pine Development Team <pine-faq@docserver.cac.washington.edu>
Subject: How do I "paste" an address from the addressbook into the text of a message?
Status: RO
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Pine does not currently support this directly, but here is a work-around: 
    1. Move the cursor to the Cc: line. 
    2. Enter the nickname or press Ctrl-T to search the addressbook and
       select the entry. 
    3. Use Ctrl-K to delete that address from the Cc: line. 
    4. Move the cursor where you want it in the body of the message. 
    5. Press Ctrl-U to insert the address. 
       
   This is a round-about way to get the job done, but it works...

From dlm@shivafs.cac.washington.edu Wed Aug 24 09:26:18 1994
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 95 15:40:48 -0800
From: The Pine Development Team <pine-faq@docserver.cac.washington.edu>
Subject: How do I convert Berkeley Mail aliases to Pine Addressbook?
Status: RO
X-Status: 

The Pine source distribution includes a shell script to do this in the
contrib/utils directory. It is called brk2pine.sh. 

From dlm@shivafs.cac.washington.edu Wed Aug 24 09:26:18 1994
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 95 15:40:48 -0800
From: Klaus Wacker <wacker@Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
Subject: How do I convert Elm aliases to Pine Addressbook?
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Content-Description: How do I convert Elm aliases to Pine Addressbook?


                                       
I wrote my own perl script, which I claim digests everything elm accepts
and converts it into something pine accepts. Please tell me if you find
otherwise. I intend to use this script regularly to keep system-wide
aliases and addressbooks in synch. It is archived at:

  http://www.Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE/wacker/elm-to-pine

A copy is below. 

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Content-Description: elm-to-pine: Convert elm aliases file to Pine Addressbook
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; name="elm-to-pine"

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# 
# elm-to-pine: Convert elm aliases file to pine address book
# Author: Klaus Wacker (wacker@Physik.Uni-Dortmund.DE)
#
# Usage e.g.
# elm-to-pine ~/.elm/aliases.text >~/.addressbook
#

# get a line, combining continuation lines
#  that start with whitespace
# (taken from the perl man page and modified)
sub get_line {
    return 0 if eof();
    $thisline = $lookahead;
  line: while ($lookahead = <>) {
      if ($lookahead =~ /^[ \t]/) {
	  $thisline .= $lookahead;
      }
      else {
	  last line;
      }
  }
    $thisline;
}

$lookahead = <>;	# get first line
while ($_ = do get_line()) {
    next if /^\#/;		# Skip comments
    chop;
    s/\t/ /g;			# Lets not get confused by any tabs in the file
    ($nicks,$name,$address)=split(/ *= */,$_,3);
    @nick=split(/ *, */,$nicks);
    ($fullname,$remark)=split(/ *, */,$name,2);
    $fullname =~ s/;/,/;	# Lastname[;,] Firstname
    if ($address =~ /,/ ) {$address="(".$address.")";} # Its a list
    foreach $nicki (@nick) {	# Pine doesn't allow multiple nicknames
	printf "%s\t%s\t%s\t\t%s\n",
	$nicki, $fullname, $address, $remark;
	$address = $nick[0];	# Let additional nicks point to the first one
    }
}

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