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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Using Elm to maintain a phonebook
Message-ID: <1991Jan26.055328.13314@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 26 Jan 91 05:53:28 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.202749.1855@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Organization: NYC Public Unix
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In article <1991Jan23.202749.1855@mrspoc.Transact.COM> steven@Transact.COM writes:
>I had the need to create a readily accessible telephone/address list,
>and it suddenly occurred to me that Elm provided the ideal tool!  I 
>created a dummy mail message to use for the headers (minimal headers),
>then I edit that message, including the name of the company and the
>main phone number as the Subject:.  In the body of the message I can
>then store the address, notes, Email address, FAX numbers, and the like.
>I typically do all of this by editing the file =phonebook using Elm's
>edit mode.  When I want to look someone up, I either sort by Subject:
>or use the / or // searches!  Works like a charm and, since I almost
>always have Elm up in a window, it's real quick, too!!

I think that's a bright idea.

Neat way to keep a database with variable number of fields, and variable field
lengths.

How many names do you tend to keep in such an Elm mailbox?

 Jean-Pierre Radley   NYC Public Unix   jpr@jpradley.jpr.com   CIS: 72160,1341