Converting OS X AddressBook to KAddress?

[Chris Ruprecht]

And I started all this with an innocent question ;-).

For me, AppleScript is sort of out of the question, since I don't know it=
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the effort to learn it, doesn't justify the end result - I'll have these=20
addresses typed in by hand faster - and if I really need one which I can'=
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get to from any of the emails, I have it in my Newton.

However, I'm not going to give up MacOS completely, I still need it for i=
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& iDVD. Linux is great for what I'm doing with it (database programming,=20
e-mail), not so good for stuff like web browsing (the fonts are terrible)=
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just awful when it comes to graphics and multimedia - but for the last tw=
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there is MacOS 9 - which is running quite happy on my PM 9600 with the G4=
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upgrade.

Best regards,
Chris



On Mon August 19 2002 22:09, Stefan Bruda wrote:
> At 14:54 -1000 on 2002-8-19 Angela Kahealani wrote:
>  > Yes, it is possible to program around Apple's bugs and design
>  > deficiencies, but one of the reasons to run YDL/KDE/MOL or
>  > MacOSuX is to get AWAY FROM Apple proprietary technologies like,
>  > say, oh, for example, AppleScript.
>
> Wait a sec.  We were talking here about _transferring_ data from Mac
> OS to something else (Linux, say).  What's the big deal in a
> _one_time_ use of proprietary technology for such a purpose (i.e., get
> rid henceforth of the proprietary technology)?
>
> I just provided a potential solution.  It may be a good one or it may
> not, I am not claiming expert status or something and I could have
> been dead wrong.  It might suit your needs or it might not.  In any
> case, the only answer I did not expect in this deluge of flames (to me
> and to others that discussed the matter in this thread).  But now that
> you did just that, here I am firing back:
>
> Had it crossed your mind that your engineering skills (yes, the ones
> that are rubbed the wrong way ;-) ), or rather the lack thereof,
> prevent you from using Linux in general and transferring data between
> Mac OS and Linux in particular?  As an engineer and (your claim again)
> person familiar with Unix, you could have fixed the keyboard mapping,
> desktop allignment, file transfer, and so on in a snap.  I am by all
> means far from an engineer (I work in theoretical computer science,
> and except in my spare time I do programming only for the courses that
> I teach--which is to say toy assignments and such, and only in high
> level languages such as Lisp and Haskell) but I did succeed in having
> a working YDL distribution on a machine that in part is not even
> supported by TerraSoft.  By simply doing my homework on the Web,
> reading the documentation, and trying things out.  I have been
> frustrated at times (still am about the impossibility of putting my
> machine to sleep), but I did not flame whatever list I could lay my
> hands on because of this.
>
> Blaming the OS/distro for your ignorance is no solution either.
>
> Just for my curiosity: Since you hate so much OS X, how come that you
> used it for that long as to collect this large database of contacts,
> as large in fact as to be next to impossible to export by hand
> _one_time_only_?
>
>  > There is yet needed much figuring-out how to configure YDL, which
>  > is why I'm reading this and every other mailing list out of TSS, as
>  > well as too many Linux UseNet NewsGroups.
>
> Flames ain't getting you anywhere.  In particular, I shall henceforth
> completely ignore your postings (questions included), just as many
> subscribers to this list undoubtedly do already.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>
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