I don't understand why you want to run any macros. I do similar things and I export just the email address in Tab separated format (no tabs appear because only one field). This gives me plain text email addresses, one per line. I don't know Eudora but I would bet that it can import that file directly.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Hobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 6:00 PM > To: TechRocks Support > Subject: [support] Processing Filemaker output > > > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------ 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
