Evolution : oh my god !

[vailima]

Just as you see it below, without using the period(s) in front of each data $tring, open Evolution and try to IMPORT the data as you see it, into Evolution ...

 Last Name
 First Name
 Title
 Mailing Address
 City
 State
 Zip Code
 Country
 Telephone 
 FAX

The above data is in the ASCII format (also known as TeXT format)

I have files on spreadsheets which could be copied and stored in the CSV (comma seperated values) format, then possibly be imported into Evolution, but the only selection available in Evolution, is for importing files from another Evolution program.

Now do you see what I mean?


>
>Subject: Re: Evolution : oh my god !
>   From: The_Eye_In_The_Sky <syiwabhairawa at yahoo.com.sg>
>   Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:16:49 +0800
>     To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 10:06 -0400, vailima wrote:
>> 
>> The only fault I can see with EVOLUTION so far is that it will NOT import ASCII files or for that matter, from well known and used data base software(s). 
>> 
>> To me this appears to be nothing less than an attempt to lock up the market BUT there is a way ... if you inspect the EVOLUTION data files.
>
>
>I do not understand this comment. "an attempt to lock up the market" ? 
>
>FYI, Evolution is using the standard MBOX format, which is used by
>Eudora, Netscape Mail, Mozilla Mail, Thunderbirds, mutt, etc.
>
>Although I am using Evolution on my desktop, but while I am away from
>home, I SSH into my home PC and reading my email using mutt. So, nothing
>proprietary here.
>
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