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Netscape Navigator for OS/2 address book and mail conversion to MR2ICE
utilities.
Freeware by Art Heimsoth <heimsoth@doglover.com> (author)
Copyright (c) Art Heimsoth 1997 - all rights reserved
No warranty is provided, The program is provided "as-is" and you are the
only one responsible if it doesn't work for you. If this is not acceptable
to you, don't use the package. The current version can always be found
from my home page at: http://members.tripod.com/~heimsoth/
The author will respond to questions and may provide updates from time to
time to the files contained in this package. You may freely distribute the
package as long as all files are included in their original form and
unaltered.
The files included and a description of them are:
NSA2MR2.CMD:
A REXX command file to convert a Netscape Navigator for OS/2 address book
to address and group entries in the MR/2 ICE address book format. It is
assumed that NETSCAPE.EXE can be found either in the current directory, or
in the PATH. The location of NETSCAPE.EXE is also assumed to be the
location of the address.htm file containing the addressbook for Netscape
Navigator. It is further assumed that MR2i.EXE can also be found in either
the current directory or in the PATH. The location of MR2i is used to find
the MR/2 ICE address and group files.
The above means that this command can be executed from the Navigator/2
directory, in which case the MR2i must be found via the PATH statement, or
if executed from the MR2i directory, then NETSCAPE must be found via tha
PATH statement.
If neither is the case, then both directories can be temporarily added to
the current path using the form:
set path=%path%;[drive]:\netscape;[drive]:\mr2i;
substituting the string "[drive]:\netscape;" or the string "[drive]:\mr2i;"
with the drive and directory location for the respective program.
Any existing address entries will be kept in the current MR2i address book,
but if an entry matches an entry from the Netscape address book, it can
optionally be updated from the Netscape address information. Only the
email address part is checked to determine this condition. If the update
option is not selected, the matching entry from the Netscape address book
will be skipped.
An optional parameter of test can be passed to indicate to run only in test
mode, in which case the real MR2i address and group file will not be
altered, but what would have been the new files will be named mr2inew.adr
and mr2inew.grp instead. If either of these files already exist, they will
be replaced.
The form of the email name may optionally be selected by the parameter
shown below. The default is jb123@windy.com if no is parameter provided.
"Joe Blow" <jb123@windy.com .. parameter = addr1
Joe Blow <jb123@windy.com .. parameter = addr2
jb123@windy.com (Joe Blow) .. parameter = addr3
(above complements of Julian Thomas as found in his ADRSTUFF.ZIP package)
All data from the name, email name, alias, distribution list, and comment
fields will be copied without change (other than the form of the email
name) to the address and group files for MR2i.
NSM2MR2.CMD
A REXX command file to convert the mail information in the Netscape Mail
folders to the format required by MR/2 ICE. The MR/2 mail folders will be
named to the same name they have with Netscape Navigator which is limited
to 8 characters. If the Netscape mail is on a FAT formatted partition,
these names will also be all upper case names.
The mail entries will be re-indexed using the reindex program supplied as
part of the MR/2 ICE distribution. If this is not desired, run the program
in test mode and then manually xcopy the files/directories from the
tempmail directory to the mail directory. This will have the same result
as if running without the test parameter, except the mail folders will not
be reindexed. Note, if this option is selected, the folders will not
include the mail items when displayed with MR2i and each folder will have
to be reindexed with MR2i in order to get them displayed.
Oll "sent" mail will be placed into the "Out box", even tho the item
may be a reply to a mail item that is in one of the other folders. You may
manually move these items to the desired folder after the Out box has been
reindexed.
The single option that may be provided is to run the command in a test
mode. This will do all of the normal processing; however, the mail folders
and mail items will be built into a tempmail directory tree. This tree
will include all the existing MR/2 ICE mail that is found and the folders
will not be reindexed.