Re: Can Pine or Alpine merge address lists?

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:45:49 -0700, Matt Ackeret wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Beartooth wrote:

>>> Well, this won't help find duplicates, but in 5 seconds of playing
>>> (I'm not trying to be snotty), I found that I can : to select items in
>>> an address book, and 'apply save' them to another address book.
>>
>>	I wouldn't've thought you were -- just noticed that you know how
>>to create a new addressbook, and I don't have a clue even to find out
>>how.
> 
> That I was what -- being snotty?

	Right. Fwiw, I've also had enough exchanges with you, here and 
elsewhere, so that if the thought had occurred to me, I'd've dismissed it 
out of hand.

> Well, to create a new addressbook, I just went into the addressbook
> page, looked at the menu at the bottom of the screen (for me, I have to
> hit ? first, since it's not displayed by default)..  I see no 'A'dd
> command.
> 
> So I go to Setup and see that there's an AddressBook subcommand.

	Sure enough! My fingers are so accustomed to do M > S >C (or in 
great need, to edit .pinerc in my shell) that I don't suppose I look 
below the first page of Setup as often as every other year. 

	The original problem is since solved, by other means, or seems 
so; but next time, I'll try it that way. Many thanks!

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
nine (count 'em -- nine) different browsers
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

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