>
>Hi,
>
>Pardon my ignorance please but I'm wondering if there is a public domain
>'cardfile' or 'phone-address' application for Metacard floating around
>somewhere?
Try for a starter the address book in the tutorials. For your 3 platform situation you
would
probably want to build a client/server app with a central data storage and clients for
each
platform.
>
>It seems like the most natural application in the world for MC so I
>would assume there is a ton of them, probably most newbies's first
>programming project, extend the tutorial example? I'm loking for a
>spophisticated one. I'm thinking this is probably common knowlege?
>
>Reason - going back for quite a few years I used the 'cardfile'
>application on Windows 3x as my address book, and also to store assorted
>odd bits of information, like passwords or directions to some place
>or how to bleed my pump system or whatever. I kept running it on Win
>95 too, though MS didn't supply it anymore. I liked it because it was
>free form, although limited in space per card. Now I use shareware AZZ
>cardfile, which has much better indexing and unlimited space per card,
>does html formatting, export, import, and it worked great in absorbing 4
>different out of synch but almost duplicate card files from 4 different
>PCs in different locations. It has quite a few slick features.
>
>But now I have a similar problem of separate data places to be kept in
>synch, including PC's, Mac, and RedHat Linux running Gnome. Obviously,
>AZZ won't run on the Mac or Unix (without some emulator), and Metacard
>seems like a natural, plus, I could add my own features.
>
>Suggestion, anyone? Ok, I could develop something, but why reinvent
>the wheel? If anyone out there wants to share their roll your own
>version, I would like to try it, and thank you in advance!
>
>Sadhu
>
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Regards, Andu
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