Re: importing address book

["Jim Armstrong" <jim_a technologist com>]

Well, That's where the editor comes in handy...
Enter a contact address the normal way... then export it to a text file.
Then export your converted address book records to the same format text
file.  Compare and Examine them in a GOOD text editor..(mentioned before) in
both text and hex mode.  You will most likely find the source of your
problem.  And you can easily edit out the offending object (using a unique
search string and replace) and import back directly thru your database
client.
It's really NOT a good idea to depend on higher level apps such as
spreadsheet and db format files to do this... Believe me, StarOffice apps
are NOT totally coherent with Office apps.  Compatibility doesnt mean that
formatting is identical.

I know it may gall you to use this win app but you'll marvel at how good it
works once you play with it a while..

BTW; Read the message board on the site to address your obvious questions
esp setting unix format as default and possible Linux ports.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Benson <rbenson ihl state ms us>
To: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: importing address book


>I did do the export, and after opening it in StarCalc (the StarOffice
>spreadsheet program) saved it as a .dbf file.  Then I transfered the file
to my
>database directory.  And now I can see it as a table in my address book.
>
>But when I try to use the email function of StarOffice, I am returned an
error
>- invalid argument, or something like that.  If I wanted to take the time,
I
>could input all of the 100 plus addresses into the "address" table, and
then I
>suspect it would work fine.  But StarOffice has no simple way to import the
>Outlook addresses into it's default addressbook and it can't see my rigged
>version.
>
>On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Jim Armstrong wrote:
>> I suggest you try "UltraEdit"
>> http://www.idmcomp.com
>> which is a GREAT windows based shareware HEX/text editor, and will allow
you
>> to convert easily to UNIX file format as well as edit in any way you
want.
>> You can even directly edit UNIX files via ftp connection without doing
file
>> transfer first.