Cool. I wish I knew how to use that. :) The OS X terminal and I aren't
friends yet.
On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 05:03 PM, James R Grinter wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:45:59PM -0500, Dave Caolo wrote:
>> http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/
>
> In a rare moment of productivity, I've knocked together a Perl script
> that will take the Newton's Names soup (exported as a CSV using NCU)
> and create .vcf (V-Card) files. These can then be copied to the iPod
> .../Contacts/ Folder (or imported into OSX's Address Book. But I've not
> tried that.)
>
> It's a quick hack and not perfect by any means - a lot of information
> is lost during the export (such as whether a record is a Person or a
> Company with a Contact) - but it might be useful to other Newton & iPod
> owners out there. It also currently assumes the ordering of the fields
> that are exported (though this probably wouldn't be too hard to adjust
> if necessary.)
>
> See http://www.gbnet.net/~jrg/newton/newt2vcf.pl - some brief notes on
> usage are at the top of the file which should give those of you with
> access to Unix or MacOS X who are Terminal/command-line savvy enough
> information to use it.
>
> (Ideas on improving the handling of some of the other exported
> fields is welcome, though I make no promises. Just drop me an email.)
>
> James.
>
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