> >how existing .address book in pine can import in Sm address.
> 
> I cannot remember the Pine addressbook format anymore, but I think it
was
> tab-delimited. So, simply write a short shell script to remove the
tabs,
> and for all the entries write it out to SM format, which to my
knowledge
> is
> like so :
> 
> Nickname|First name|Last name|Email|Comment
> 
> You might need to make some exceptions in place, especially when
> determining the first + last names. Ie :
> 
> Mr. Horace Wilson
> Dr. Yankee Doodle Farmboy
> 
> multiple args, and such will make it turn out uglier. But its merely
> cosmetics really.

or if you don't want to figure out SM's format, and Pine is in fact
tab-delimited, just write a script to replace tabs with commas and run
the resulting file through the Address book import/export plugin as a
CSV file.

 - paul



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