Re: [NTLK] vCard again

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 11:10:05 EST


On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Chiang Meng Hin wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions from you all. I forgot to mention some details. I
> use a PC (some of you may be disapointed?) and I thought I did export
> EVERYTHING in my address book to vCard. Unfortunately I just found out that
> I can't select everything and just "export" them. Each vCard file should
> contain only ONE contact. That's killing me now. I do have outlook in my PC

Actually, this is a lie. According to the vCard spec, there's no reason
not to have multiple vCards in one file. If your software doesn't support
reading them, then they're not very compliant. It says right in section
2.1.1 of the vCard spec that "A vCard data stream may include one or more
vCard objects." It's not a required part of the spec though.

> although i don't used to use it. I don't have those old-fashioned organizor
> softwares that NCU soppurts. I tried to transfer the contacts to
> Outlooksxpress and it worked (export to .csv) but i got stuck there since i
> couldn't find anything supporting Outlookxpress.
> There seem to be two solutions now. First, export the contacts via vCards
> ONE by ONE. Second, send them thru email ONE by ONE. That's the last thing I
> want to do. For the sake of all-mightly digital age, I really don't want to
> do that.

It sounds like you're using the (Win98/2k/ME) Address Book, right? You
can easily export from there to CSV, and then import that into NCU and get
it onto your Newton. You just have to manually map the fields. This is
what you were trying to do, right? I hope I haven't lost track of this
thread.

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