Re: Oemacs; Merging BBDB databases

1993-10-05 Thread Cedric Beust
Jamie Zawinski writes: [About merging two .bbdb bases] : > Maybe something could be done directly with the .bbdb files directly. : : This would probably be really hard. I suppose a package like emerge.el would be a valuable help to such an exercise. Cedric "You stand there with y

Re: Oemacs; Merging BBDB databases

1993-10-04 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Jon Degenhardt wrote: > > Now I have BBDB on both a PC and a Unix system, a situation I wanted. > Except, it would nice to be able to merge two BBDB databases to keep > them consistent. Perhaps some like running bbdb-refile-record on records > with equal keys (using comparison ala bbdb-create) an

Oemacs; Merging BBDB databases

1993-10-04 Thread Jon Degenhardt
In case anyone is interested, I tried BBDB with Oemacs (an emacs-19 port to MS-DOS) and it worked without a hitch. My complements to the authors of both. (Especially impressive was the fact BBDB files names begin with "bbdb-" and yet are all distinct after eight characters, the length of a DOS fil