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- From: jrh@jrh.uucp (James R. Hamilton)
- Subject: Re: Need hp95lx data file formats -- Any HPers out there?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.015341.187509@jrh.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 01:53:41 GMT
- References: <1992Dec26.164929.104612@jrh.uucp> <1992Dec27.142129.16982@irfu.se>
- Organization: private system, Toronto, Ontario
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- In article <1992Dec27.142129.16982@irfu.se> bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide') writes:
- >
- >I think the HP95LX appointment book format is similar. Now, you just
- >have to write a HP-UX <--> HP95LX filter. Please e-mail me a copy when
- >you have done it :-).
-
- Someone else at IBM wrote an HP <-> PROFS update program so, thankfully,
- I'm spared the pain.
-
- > Seriously, I would very much like to see the VUE
- >'datebook' being able to handle the HP95LX appointment book format (plus
- >'calendar', 'finger', and its own format). Or, even better, I would
- >like to have a filter which translates the HP95LX file to pure ACII
- >files and back. Then it would be possible to keep your VUE 'datebook'
- >and the HP95LX appointment calendar synchronized and up to date a all
- >times. You just connect the HP95 and your HP workstation via a serial
- >line ('kermit' works great on both, that's what I use all the time) and
- >transfer the calendar data between them. It could even be done
- >automatically so that whenever you update 'datebook', the data gets
- >translated and automatically transferred to the HP95LX if it's connected.
-
- As mentioned above, someone else solved the address conversion problem
- for me but I did write a conversion program for the phone book format.
-
- My Sharp IQ-8300M is able to write its phone book out in "sdf" format
- (an ASCII file where each record is on a single line and each field is
- surround by quotation marks and separated from the next using a comma
- it may be a standard of some sort but, all I really care about is that
- its a regular, easy to parse, ASCII representation). I wrote a pair of
- programs that move phone books back and forth between the sharp sdf
- format (which may be a standard) and the hp95lx phone book format. Drop
- me a note, if you think you might be able use them or work from them.
-
- --jrh
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-
- James R. Hamilton inet: jrh@jrh.guild.org
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