Re: [SLUG] netscape address-book

From: Norbert Omar Cartagena (niccademous@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 23:32:16 EDT


Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
>
> Well it is not as simple as that.
>
> First in your New Netscape "NN" you must create the addressbook "ab" exactly
> as you had it configured in the Old Netscape "ON". You can change names but
> the structure must be the same. If you have an "ab" with sub directories you
> will have problems. For example you have an "ab" named qaz which has sub
> "ab"s named qa and az. For some reason this type of directory structure does
> not work too well.
>
> For mine I have an "ab" named personal (this is a required "ab" by Netscape)
> whose file name is pab.na2 and a second "ab" named Linux whose file name is
> Linux.na2.
>
> Once you have created these files then you can copy any Netscape "ab" to the
> ones you create. For example in ON I had an "ab" file LinuxPeople.na2.
> I successively copied this to this Linux.na2 in the NN.
>
> Note:
> 1) All "ab" in Netscape are named *.na2.
> 2) the location for the "ab" is /home/log_in_name/.netscape/*.na2
> 3) Since Netscape is originally a MS DOS program it uses MS type file names.
>

Kick'n! It worked! Thanks :)

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