[Alpine-info] exporting the alpine contact list to a file?

Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info alpine-info at u.washington.edu
Mon Sep 30 05:05:03 PDT 2024


ahem, ignore my question.
I realized what I was doing wrong here.
Thanks Chime!
Karen



On Mon, 30 Sep 2024, Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info wrote:


> Hi Chime,

> My goal is to avoid cut and paste if at all possible, would rather get the

> entire file, download it, then use Wordperfect to generate what I require.

> Toward that end, running the command ls -l with variation's of the dot

> addressbook name is not yielding a file. Should I do this search in a

> different way?

> Thanks again,

> Karen

>

>

>

> On Sun, 29 Sep 2024, Chime Hart wrote:

>

>> Hi Karen: Sure I can consider 2 ways. First your contact lists are in a

>> file called dot addressbook, which you can even import in a message to

>> yourself or some1 else. You can also cut-and-paste entries from that file.

>> The .addressbook file would be in your home-directory on Shelllllworld

>> also in any other shell-accounts you have.

>> Chime

>>

>>

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