This is a question about character processing text files on a Windows machine, more than it is a question about ebase. Here's the story:
- We have customized ebase to create and export a set of email lists (currently 18 lists) as text files. - We then run a text-processing macro on each text file. - We then distribute those email lists to different users in the organization (some of whom are off-site and to whom we do not want to give access to ebase) to plug into their Eudora Address Books as nickname files. The problem is with the text-processing macro on the text files. We're using macros in TextPad v4.4. The macro language is very opaque and difficult to change anytime we change the set of email lists. We'd like to come up with a better way of getting from ebase to Eudora. What we export from ebase is a list of email addresses separted by paragraph breaks: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <CR-LF> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <CR-LF> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <CR-LF> What we want is a file that conforms to Eudora's address book formatting: the word "alias", followed by the nickname to use in the address book, followed by a comma-separated list of the emails to be sent to. For example: alias listname [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have two questions: - Does anyone know of a way to get Filemaker to export the records to conform to Eudora's formatting requirements? - Can anyone suggest a different programmable text processor - an easy language or a program with a macro-language that's easy to understand? Thanks, Jeff ***************************** Jeff Hobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Policy Director Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition (BATLUC) http://www.transcoalition.org phone: 510-740-3102 fax: 510-740-3131 ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
