Re: Migrating an xgnokii contacts list from gnokii-0.5.0pre9 to gnokii-0.6.4

[Andreas Siegert]

Quoting Pawel Kot (address@hidden) on Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:38:02PM +0200:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Andreas Siegert wrote:
> 
> > it's been a while since I updated, the old version always worked fine.
> > Now I suddenly find myself with a phonebook (sim & memory) from a dead
> > phone (6310i) that I saved with xgnokii 0.5.0pre9 and I have version
> > 0.6.4 which will not read the old phone book.
> > I can see that the new type phone book has more fields.
> > Is there a quick way to convert? Or where are the filed codes
> > documented so that I make my own awk script?
> 
> The new format should be documented in the manual page. If you show one
> entry of what you have, I'll try to hint how to convert it.

I found it (the install process seems to ignnore the man pages), 
but what might be a good addition is to specify that
field 6 has to be 11 (subentr_type=number).
With 0 I always had empty phonebook entries ;-(

I also ended up with all unused SIM entries set to "               "

cheers
afx

cheers
afx
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