Hi Kevin,
Thanks for volunteering to start fixing the existing problems with bbdbsync. Of
the lot of problems that you stated, the only one that surprised me was the
loss of your user fields from BBDB. In any case, I've been swamped at work and
so have not had the time despite trying for the last 2/3 weeks to take a swipe
at fixing some problems. Another problem that would be really good to fix is to
handle double-quotes in fields. I'll try and support you if you come across
some unreadable code.
By default, I write to .bbdb.sync instead of .bbdb just so that people wouldn't
end up losing their data. Its configurable anyway.
Dinesh
Kevin Davidson writes:
>
> So I've finally got my Palm V. I can sync my appointments with the
> CDE calendar manager no problem, as Sun thoughtfully include a
> PDAsync tool in Solaris 8, but curiously missing from their supplied
> set of conduits is BBDB support :-)
>
> I ignored all the previous messages about this before (as I didn't
> have a Palm), but I've managed to track down
>
> bbdb-pilot.el by Tom Fawcett. Looks to be a one-way thing and needs
> pilot-link to work.
>
> bbdbSync.pl by Dinesh G Dutt.
>
> Now I've tried bbdbSync and it almost works, before I start hacking
> at it to solve the bugs, does anyone know of a newer version, or an
> even better tool ?
>
> bugs:
> 1. Doesn't understand non-US postcodes so all addresses get thrown
> away. (Non US postcodes are stored as a list of strings instead
> of a single string. No I don't know why - seems like a lot of
> effort to go to for no gain at all.)
> 2. Mangles some phone numbers.
> Any that have an area code in parentheses lose everything except
> the area code.
> Others get spaces replaced by `-', making them look odd to me.
> 3. Only supports BBDB format version 3 (which I'm still using)
> 4. Entries from the Palm go into .bbdb.sync, but not .bbdb (or is
> that intentional ? There's not much in the way of documentation.)
> 5. I can't replace my .bbdb with .bbdb.sync as it has lost *all* of
> my user-fields (www attribution signature mail-alias pgp-mail
> and others)
>
>
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