On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 19:45 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 26/11/11 19:27, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 19:09 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >> Is there a Linux application that will display a .vcf file? > > Depends what you mean by "display". Most of the mail clients can import > > VCF files as contact records. > > > > poc > > > > I'm not sure myself, a text editor or Libreoffice will display > the raw data but apparently there is some format the data goes into. > > My daughter has nothing but Apple equipment and has been on the > phone with them for hours this weekend trying to sort out some > problem, came around with the phone in her ear still talking and > asked if I could display those files. I have never seen anything > that convinces me the Mac is easy to use! Always problems and my > daughter is computer literate. > > Google describes them as some sort of record cards that can be > displayed in OSX and Windows. I didn't find anything like that > for Linux. I certainly don't want the stuff in my Thunderbird app. > > Just though there might be something I haven't found. > > Thanks, > > Bob > > Recently I had to create a e-mail list that corresponds to a contact list from evolution. Evolution will load a .vcf file. Using cut one can easily isolate the e-mail addresses in the file. You also have to remove the ^M character at the end of each line in the file. vim can do that. -- ======================================================================= "You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct." - M. Somerset Maugham ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
