Newtonlink Options - Export/Import/Sync Newton Cards

Newtonlink is able to import Newton cards to a desktop system, export card informations from a desktop to Newton cards and to synchronize Newton cards with card informations on your desktop system.

Import

While importing Newton cards Newtonlink gets all card informations via Sloup and writes them into an intermediate file ~/.newtonlink/newtonlink.cards. This file is written in the common Addressbook file format. After that, other filter routines convert this intermediate file into a file format for the supported desktop cards programs. You can edit the name and path of these desktop card files in the Newtonlink config file.

Export

Exporting desktop cards to Newton cards is currently only supported in the Addressbook option. Newtonlink reads the file ~/.newtonlink/newtonlink.cards.send, which has to be in Addressbook format, and sends them to the Newton cards via Sloup.

Synchronization

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Option -adr : Import/export/sync Newton cards with Addressbook

newtonlink -adr [-e|-i|-s]

This function exports (-e), imports (-i) or synchronizes (-s) Newton cards with Addressbook input file. You can edit the name and path of the Addressbook file in the Newtonlink config file.

Screenshot Addressbook after cards import

Option -nsadr : Get Email addresses from Newton cards for Netscape addressbook

newtonlink -nsadr

This function gets all person and company email addresses from your Newton cards and generates a Netscape addressbook file. You can edit the name and path of this file in the Newtonlink config file.

Old addressbook files are moved to address-book.html.bak (Navigator) or abook.nab.bak (Communicator).
Addressbook aliasnames are build with last and first name together lowercase.
This option works for the older Netscape Navigator. The newer Netscape Communicator (version 4.04 or later) uses a different berkley database format for the addressbook. Thanks to Robert Nicholson for reporting this problem. The Communicator is not directly supported, but Newtonlink moves the addressbook file abook.nab to abook.nab.bak and writes an addressbook file address-book.html. During the next Communicator startup this file is automatically converted to the new version.

Screenshot Netscape Addressbook after cards import

Option -xfadr : Get Email addresses from Newton cards for Xfmail addressbook

newtonlink -xfadr

This function gets all person and company email addresses from your Newton cards and generates a Xfmail addressbook file. You can edit the name and path of this file in the Newtonlink config file.

Screenshot Xfamil Addressbook after cards import

Option -webadr : Get Newton cards for WebAddress input file

newtonlink -webadr

This function gets all cards of your Newton and writes them to an Addressbook input file. You can edit the name and path of this file in the Newtonlink config file. After that, WebAddress by Bodo Bauer is called to convert the Addressbook input file to his own HTML-Addressbook format. Change the path to WebAddress in the Newtonlink config file.

Screenshot WebAddress after cards import

Option -ksendfax : Get Newton cards for Ksendfax phonebook

newtonlink -ksendfax

This function gets all cards of your Newton and writes them to an KDE ksendfax input file. You can edit the name and path of this file in the Newtonlink config file.

Screenshot Ksendfax phonebook after cards import

kab

Option -kab : Get Newton cards for KDE addressbook

newtonlink -kab

This function gets all cards of your Newton and writes them to an KDE addressbook input file. You can edit the name and path of this file in the Newtonlink config file.

Screenshot kab addressbook after cards import

Option -kmailadr : Get Newton cards for KMail addressbook

newtonlink -kmailadr

This function gets all cards of your Newton and writes them to an Kmail addressbook file. You can edit the name and path of this file in the Newtonlink config file.

Screenshot KMail addressbook after cards import

Option -soadr : Get Newton cards for StarOffice 5.1 addressbook

newtonlink -soadr

This function gets all cards of your Newton and writes them to the StarOffice 5.1 addressbook file. You can edit the name and path of the file in the Newtonlink config file. The address book file is a dBase table which actually consists of two files, a .dbf file and a .dbt one.

Screenshot StarOffice addressbook