> "AK" == Arnd Kohrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Kevin" == Kevin Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kevin> [Did I miss the beginning of this ?]
AK> I guess, I forwarded parts a personal reply from Thomas
My bad, after a dozen years doing email, I still regularly mess
this up...
> "Kevin" == Kevin Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kevin> [Did I miss the beginning of this ?]
I guess, I forwarded parts a personal reply from Thomas - Please excuse
Thomas - I wasn't paying attention that it was not for the list.
Kevin> Do I take it you do use Windows and us
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arnd Kohrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Thomas" == Thomas E Deweese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "AK" == Arnd Kohrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Thomas" == Thomas E Deweese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[Did I miss the beginning of this ?]
Arn
> "Thomas" == Thomas E Deweese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "AK" == Arnd Kohrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Thomas" == Thomas E Deweese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AK> The BBDB<->Palm synchability should be useful to as many users
AK> as possible. Personally, I synch my P
Aldo Valente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Paul Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If anyone has the original SyncAB with BBDB support, let me know. I
> > forgot to RCS the original before I started.
>
> I think i'll mail it to this list ASAP, so it will be available
> through the archive.
This
Paul Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 12 Jul 2000, Kevin Davidson wrote:
>
> > There's supposed to be a patched version of SyncAB that understands
> > BBDB, but the links to it point to a site that no longer seems to
> > exist :-(
Sorry, my fault. My ISP (one of the oldest in Germa
On 12 Jul 2000, Kevin Davidson wrote:
> There's supposed to be a patched version of SyncAB that understands
> BBDB, but the links to it point to a site that no longer seems to
> exist :-(
I downloaded it a while back and have been hacking on it for a few
weekends. It doesn't look very much l
This is getting pretty off topic for bbdb-info. If you have more
SyncBBDB specific questions please direct them to me directly.
> "KD" == Kevin Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KD> Just downloaded [SyncBBCB] and tried it. I started uising
KD> PilotManager last week
KD> But it do
On 12 Jul 2000, Kevin Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas
>> E Deweese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "RW" == Ronan Waide
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> RW> Just to poke my oar in here; There should, in CVS, be a big chunk
> RW> of code for mer
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas E Deweese
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "RW" == Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RW> Just to poke my oar in here; There should, in CVS, be a big chunk of
RW> code for merging/syncing any old bbdb into your regular bbdb.
Thomas> I'd li
On July 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> okay.
> maybe we should have "vCard import/export"?
Yup. See my previous mails on this topic.
Waider.
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>>>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>> On the subject of "Re: Palm <-> BBDB (again)"
>>>> Sent on Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:37:40 +0200 (CEST)
>>>> Honorable Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> Well
On July 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> OUCH!!! I always assumed that everyone was like gnomecard (blank line
> separated vcard records).
> if this is not the case, then, of course, the proposal doesn't make much
> sense.
>
Well, taking netscape as an example (a bad example, maybe, given their
Ronan Waide wrote:
>
> Most vCard apps would, I suspect, have some sort of
> quasi-proprietary way of storing the collection of vCards - maybe a
> DBM database, maybe a linked list dumped directly to file,
> whatver.
OUCH!!! I always assumed that everyone was like gnomecard (blank line
separate
> "Jack" == Jack Twilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Thomas" == Thomas E Deweese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thomas> Incidentally doesn't this really involve three syncs to get
Thomas> everything properly synchronized?
Thomas> BBDB <- sync 1 -> VCard VCard <- sync 2 -> Pi
> "Thomas" == Thomas E Deweese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[... description of multiple syncs ...]
Thomas> Incidentally doesn't this really involve three syncs to get
Thomas> everything properly synchronized?
Thomas> BBDB <- sync 1 -> VCard
Thomas> VCard <- sync 2 -> Pilot
Thomas> BBDB <-
On July 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Hmm, so the intent is to use SyncAB (or something like it) to sync
> with an intermediate form which you then sync with BBDB in Emacs. In
> essence two syncs (Pilot <-sync 1-> CVS/VCard <-sync 2-> BBDB). This
Er, no. Expanding SyncAB to understand commun
> "RW" == Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RW> On July 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>> Do people have opinions on what they think the 'ideal' system
>> would be? For what it's worth, I'm not overly attached to my conduit
RW> - My BBDB runs constantly from when I log in to when I log ou
On July 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Not totally true for me. I'm paranoid, so I save often. :-)
> I save the BBDB, if necessary, every time I save a VM folder,
> including my INBOX.
Likewise, I too save rather frequently. Additionally, exactly how much
benefit is it? Most vCard apps would, I s
Martin Schwenke wrote:
>
> > "Sam" == Sam Steingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Sam> The significant i/o slowdown should not be noticeable since
> Sam> we usually have one read and one write per emacs session and
> Sam> an emacs session lasts from power-on to power-off (I hop
> "Sam" == Sam Steingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sam> The significant i/o slowdown should not be noticeable since
Sam> we usually have one read and one write per emacs session and
Sam> an emacs session lasts from power-on to power-off (I hope
Sam> this description matches
Ronan Waide wrote:
>
> - Bringing these two points together led me to my current belief that
> the best way to manage this is to provide the BBDB with a generic
> merge/sync framework - which I've done an amount of work on
I think JWZ was right when he said that keeping BBDB in vCard format
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> No, it's not perfect. I did consider rewriting the Pilot addressbook
> to be more like the BBDB...
For what it's worth, SuperNames (which is commercial, sadly) makes the
Pilot address book *much* more usable. IMHO, of course.
On July 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Do people have opinions on what they think the 'ideal' system
> would be? For what it's worth, I'm not overly attached to my conduit
from my point of view:
- I use PilotManager (well, not at the moment; it's having some basic
disagreements with Perl 5.6
> "RW" == Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RW> Just to poke my oar in here; There should, in CVS, be a big chunk of
RW> code for merging/syncing any old bbdb into your regular bbdb.
I'd like to start some sort of architectural discussion on this
topic. Over the long US holiday I
Just to poke my oar in here; There should, in CVS, be a big chunk of
code for merging/syncing any old bbdb into your regular bbdb. There
should also be a large part of the code necessary to get the pilot
database into the bbdb, although it relies on a modified version of
pilot-addresses from the p
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
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 (a
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