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At 08:54 PM 7/9/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>winmac Digest 9 Jul 2001 20:54:41 -0000 Issue 101
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>Topics (messages 461 through 465):
>
>Mac Eudora importing addresses to PC outlook
> 461 by: Jeff Thomas
> 462 by: Bruce Johnson
> 463 by: Darryl Lee
> 464 by: Curtis Wilcox
>
>Re: WinGate, Mandrake Linux and Russian tech problem.
> 465 by: Richard Doyle
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>Message-id: <fc.00663c120052a24200663c120052a242.52a282@cvm.msstate.edu>
>Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:04:42 -0500
>To: winmac@iffy.com
>From: "Jeff Thomas" <jeff@cvm.msstate.edu>
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>Subject: Mac Eudora importing addresses to PC outlook
>
>I have a user who needs to import his address book from the Mac version
>of Eudora 3.1 to the PC version of Outlook 5.
>Is this a lost cause?
>
>
>Jeff Thomas
>
>Message-ID: <3B461C1D.5060005@pharmacy.arizona.edu>
>Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 13:14:21 -0700
>From: Bruce Johnson <johnson@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU>
>MIME-Version: 1.0
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>Subject: Re: [WinMac] Mac Eudora importing addresses to PC outlook
>
>Jeff Thomas wrote:
>
>>I have a user who needs to import his address book from the Mac version
>>of Eudora 3.1 to the PC version of Outlook 5.
>>Is this a lost cause?
>
>
>Not necessarily. I don't remember if Eudora has a text export format, but
>I do know the current version of Eudora does, and that should import the
>3.1 address book.
>
>Then Outlook should import that.
>
>If nothing else, Netscape Communicator has an Eudora import utility, and a
>text export that Outlook does know how to use.
>
>Then, (my suggestion only) go shoot the PC repeatedly with a 12 gauge and
>get all the aggravation of lost time, data, money and effort over with all
>at once, and go get another system with a different e-mail program :-/
>That way you don't suffer the death of a thousand VBA viruses...
>
>--
>Bruce Johnson
>University of Arizona
>College of Pharmacy
>Information Technology Group
>
>
>
>Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 13:20:14 -0700
>From: Darryl Lee <lee@darryl.com>
>To: winmac@iffy.com
>Message-ID: <20010706132014.A7171@shell3.ba.best.com>
>Mime-Version: 1.0
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>Subject: Re: [WinMac] Mac Eudora importing addresses to PC outlook
>
>As much as i admire Bruce's "shotgun" approach...
>
>i have a bookmark just for this question:
>
>http://www.interguru.com/MailInformation.htm
>
>Looks like there's a freeware utility named Dawn that might do the trick.
>
>--
>Darryl Lee <lee@darryl.com> | Bore yourself silly: <http://www.darryl.com>
>
>On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:14:21PM -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> > Jeff Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > I have a user who needs to import his address book from the Mac version
> > > of Eudora 3.1 to the PC version of Outlook 5.
> > > Is this a lost cause?
> >
> >
> > Not necessarily. I don't remember if Eudora has a text export format,
> > but I do know the current version of Eudora does, and that should import
> > the 3.1 address book.
> >
> > Then Outlook should import that.
> >
> > If nothing else, Netscape Communicator has an Eudora import utility, and
> > a text export that Outlook does know how to use.
> >
> > Then, (my suggestion only) go shoot the PC repeatedly with a 12 gauge
> > and get all the aggravation of lost time, data, money and effort over
> > with all at once, and go get another system with a different e-mail
> > program :-/ That way you don't suffer the death of a thousand VBA
> viruses...
> >
> > --
> > Bruce Johnson
> > University of Arizona
> > College of Pharmacy
> > Information Technology Group
> >
> >
> >
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>Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010706173126.00b8aca8@mail.rochester.edu>
>Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 17:42:12 -0400
>To: winmac@iffy.com
>From: Curtis Wilcox <cwcx@mail.rochester.edu>
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>Subject: Re: [WinMac] Mac Eudora importing addresses to PC outlook
>
>At 03:04 PM 7/6/2001 -0500, Jeff Thomas wrote:
>>I have a user who needs to import his address book from the Mac version
>>of Eudora 3.1 to the PC version of Outlook 5.
>>Is this a lost cause?
>
>Eudora's addressbook is just plain text with an index in a recource fork.
>Open the addressbook in BBEdit, change the format to DOS and save it as a
>text file called nndbase.txt. Move the file to the PC and use Outlook
>Express's own addressbook import which lists Eudora as one of the
>supported formats (ignore the bit about 3.0 and earlier, it should still work).
>
>--
>Curtis Wilcox cwcx@mail.rochester.edu
>Desktop Systems Consultant 716/274-1160
>Eastman School of Music Pager: x12-3290
>
>
>
>From: "Richard Doyle" <rdoyle@islandnetworks.com>
>To: <winmac@iffy.com>
>Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:53:55 -0700
>Message-ID: <NEBBKGLIPDOGIKJINDLJMEAKEHAA.rdoyle@islandnetworks.com>
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>Subject: RE: [WinMac] WinGate, Mandrake Linux and Russian tech problem.
>
>Without knowing more about your setup, it sounds as though the techs
>installed WRP for use with Windows clients, and NAT or proxies for use
>with the others. If so, the networking setup on your Linux box should
>resemble that on your UMAX machine.
>
>What version of Wingate are you running? Can you access the Wingate
>control program (Gatekeeper)? Does your UMAX box get its IP and other
>parameters with DHCP from the Wingate server? There really isn't enough
>information here to give you much specific help. You can get a lot of
>information on your Win 98 SE box by running winipcfg. You can confirm
>that you are running WRP on your wintel client by looking at the control
>panel, which should contain an icon for the Wingate client.
>
>-Richard
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Durant [mailto:bdurant@peterlink.ru]
> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 12:45 PM
> > To: Windows-MacOS cooperation list.
> > Subject: [WinMac] WinGate, Mandrake Linux and Russian tech problem.
> >
> >
> >
> > Some months ago, I used some local Russian techs to help me
> > setting up a
> > home LAN. During the 6-8 weeks that this went on, the local
> > company provided
> > two sets of two techs to set up the LAN and lastly, a third
> > set came along
> > and told me that Win 98 SE (UK) and all the programs,
> > drivers, etc. need to
> > be reinstalled on the WinGate machine. The problem turned out
> > to be that the
> > third group hadn't a clue what the password was for the
> > WinGate app and
> > therefore needed to do a complete reinstall, but was trying
> > to stick me with
> > a bill for their incompetence.
> >
> > Now I have a new problem. I have an IBM machine with Mandrake Linux
> > installed on it. I want to access the Internet through my
> > home LAN, but am
> > unsure how to connect to the machine with WinGate. I remember
> > that the last
> > time the techs were here, they set up something that works
> > with WinGate for
> > my UMAX, but that they said that they set something else up
> > for the Wintel
> > client machine that I have, running Win 98 SE (UK) with a
> > 98lite install.
> > What this is, I haven't a clue. I have looked on the at the
> > network adapter
> > properties on the Wintel client and haven't found anything
> > that looks like
> > something that I can use. Mandrake Linux (Intel) does not
> > recognize the IP
> > address for the UMAX and I believe that the Mandrake machine
> > does have a
> > connection to the network, though I am not certain. What
> > should I look for
> > on the WinGate machine (or the Wintel client) and what can I
> > do from the
> > Mandrake machine?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for the patience it took to read this saga.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Brian
> > --
> >
> >
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