Re: OT Converting a Windows WAB file to a sane format
Cliff Sarginson wrote: I have Outlook ExpressiMicrosoft address book .. wab file .. that I want to convert to a form suitable for use in a normal mutt alias file. type file. I can think of some insane ways to do it, does anyone have a sane way ? Fortunately the file only has aliases and email addresses, no other cruft needs to be extracted/deleted. it should be pretty easy to do with a shell script. you didn't include an example of what the file looks like, but a perl or shell script should be able to do that quite easily. it might be trickier to figure out a way to get the nicknames right, and to escape / quote characters that need it, but with a bit of editing should be pretty simple. -- Experience -- a great teacher, but the tutition fees...
Re: OT Converting a Windows WAB file to a sane format
On 2001-12-15 01:22:44 -0800, Will Yardley wrote: Cliff Sarginson wrote: I have Outlook ExpressiMicrosoft address book .. wab file .. that I want to convert to a form suitable for use in a normal mutt alias file. type file. I can think of some insane ways to do it, does anyone have a sane way ? Fortunately the file only has aliases and email addresses, no other cruft needs to be extracted/deleted. it should be pretty easy to do with a shell script. you didn't include an example of what the file looks like, but a perl or shell script should be able to do that quite easily. Maybe this will do it: http://tuxedo.org/~esr/lookout/ Have a nice day Morten -- Morten Liebach [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://kallisti.dk/ PGP-key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xD796A4EB
