LYNX-DEV converting Pine addressbook to html

[Jim Spath (Webmaster Jim)]

Now that Lynx has more bookmark files and some more email flexibility,
I decided to have my "e" bookmark be a page for mailing addresses.
Here's a little script I threw (up) for reading the standard Pine
addressbook and putting into a quick html page for Lynx to use:

--cut--
#!/bin/sh
# pine2lynx - read pine address book, write lynx "e" bookmark page
echo "<ul>" >e.html
/opt/gnu/bin/gawk \
  --field-separator='\t' \
  '{printf "<li><a href=\"mailto:%s\";>%s</a> %s\n", $3, $1, $2}' \
  <${HOME}/.addressbook \
  | sort -f +2 >>e.html
echo "</ul>" >>e.html
--cut--

Note that my gawk is in a non-standard place.  I'm not sure how to tell
"old" awk to only use tabs as field separators. 

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