Re: [Evolution] Re: LDIF importer

[steve hnizdur <shnizdur yahoo co uk>]

By using the following on the command line

cat <file.ldif> | tr -d '\015' > <newfile.ldif>

Hope that helps.

 --- Howard Jacobson <jacobson redhat com> wrote:
> I seem to have the same problem.  What method did
> you use to remove the <cr>s?
>
> HAJ
>
> steve hnizdur wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the response.
> >
> > The ldif file was created on M$ and so it had
> <cr><lf>
> > line terminators. Got rid of the <cr>s and
> everything
> > seems to be OK now.
> >
> > This begs the question, why didn't the importer
> either
> > complain about the file format or preferably just
> do
> > the job? 
> >
> > Hopefully many people will be bringing data from
> the 
> > other side and requiring them to alter the data
> first
> > presents an unnecessary barrier.
> >
> > I've not tried importing from Outlook, as I don't
> use
> > it,  but is there a similar problem there?
> >
> >
> > --- Zot O'Connor <zot zotconsulting com> wrote: 
> >
> > > When I got it to work it took 5 tries.  It did
> work
> > > on an addressbook
> > > from netscape.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 05:57, steve hnizdur wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have just started to use evolution on a Redhat
> > > 7.2
> > >
> > > > system with evolution 1.0.
> > > >
> > > > I have tried to import a file in ldif format into
> > > > contacts and nothing happened other than a
> message
> > > > saying the importer wasn't ready and would try
> > > again
> > >
> > > > in 5 seconds. No importing was done. I created
> the
> > > > ldif file from netscape on another machine.
> > > >
> > > > Are there any issues over the use of this
> > > importer?
> > >
> > > >
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> >
> > Steve Hnizdur
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Nokia 5510 looks weird sounds great. 
Go to http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/nokia/ discover and win it! 
The competition ends 16 th of December 2001.