Re: Address book combine?

2010-09-23 Thread Bill Davidsen
Beverly Howard wrote: hack Curious... what's the hack? Export the data, read with perl, eliminate true dups, combine matching (name and email or name and phone) entries with no non-matching entries, flag conflicts, output in abook format. By combining I catch the case where a dup because

Re: Address book combine?

2010-09-15 Thread Beverly Howard
FoxPro There are a number of ways to skin this cat... For example Total on email to NODUPE is a new one for me... will have to investigate that command further as it sounds interesting ;-) in addition to Arnie's steps, some other possibilities. set unique on Index on upper(email) to email

Re: Address book combine?

2010-09-15 Thread Arnie Goetchius
Beverly Howard wrote: FoxPro There are a number of ways to skin this cat... For example Total on email to NODUPE is a new one for me... will have to investigate that command further as it sounds interesting ;-) in addition to Arnie's steps, some other possibilities. set unique on Index on

Re: Address book combine?

2010-09-15 Thread Beverly Howard
I can create a bunch of variables in the .csv file and then Pegasus will replace the variable with whatever is in the .csv file. Great information... thanks. Beverly Howard ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org

Re: Address book combine?

2010-09-14 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Beverly Howard wrote: hack Curious... what's the hack? combine two or more address books, eliminate duplicates, and note possible conflicts? I'm looking forward to seeing if there is a good mozilla solution for this as doing what you need has never been easy. That said, I converted my

Re: Address book combine?

2010-09-14 Thread Arnie Goetchius
d...@kd4e.com wrote: I remember doing this in dBase+ back in the 80's, as I recall it required a macro. Could this be done in something like OpenOffice with a macro? If I were faced with this need today, I would export both lists to csv format, import them into http://google.com/contacts

Re: Address book combine?

2010-09-14 Thread Philip Chee
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:56:59 -0400, Arnie Goetchius wrote: It still works in the current incarnation of dbase+ that I use which is FoxPro. The current incarnation of dbase+ is dbase: http://www.dbase.com/ There are several other products that implement the xBase language including Foxpro.

Address book combine?

2010-09-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Is there a good way to combine two or more address books, eliminate duplicates, and note possible conflicts? I have a way now, but it's very much a hack and Linux based. The same question goes for passwords, as I combine profiles, etc. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear

Re: Address book combine?

2010-09-13 Thread Beverly Howard
hack Curious... what's the hack? combine two or more address books, eliminate duplicates, and note possible conflicts? I'm looking forward to seeing if there is a good mozilla solution for this as doing what you need has never been easy. That said, I converted my and my wife's

Re: Address book combine?

2010-09-13 Thread d...@kd4e.com
I remember doing this in dBase+ back in the 80's, as I recall it required a macro. Could this be done in something like OpenOffice with a macro? If I were faced with this need today, I would export both lists to csv format, import them into http://google.com/contacts then run the google