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+Date: 13 Sep 1996 22:49:40 GMT
+From: William Burrow <aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca>
+To: pine-info@cac.washington.edu
+Subject: Re: Composing mail to all entries in addressbook
+
+Ari Y. Weintraub (aweintra@umabnet.ab.umd.edu) wrote:
+: Is there any way in Pine 3.94 to compose mail to all of the entries in my
+: addressbook. For example, I recently changed my phone number and would
+: like to send one message to everybody with the new number. I can't find a
+: way to do this - does anyone out there have any idea? TIA
+
+This would be a nice suggestion for Pine, however, you can do pretty much
+the same in Unix using the following awk script.  Copy everything between the
+lines into a file named:  everyone 
+
+-------------%< clip --------------
+{
+    printf("everyone\tEveryone\t(");  
+  
+    if ( $0 ~ /\(/ )
+        continue
+    else
+        printf("%s", $1);  
+
+    while ( getline > 0 ) {
+        if ( $0 ~ /\(/ )
+            continue
+        else
+            printf(",%s", $1);
+    }
+    printf(")\n"); 
+}
+-------------%< clip --------------
+
+Now, type the following exactly at the Unix prompt:
+
+awk -f everyone < ~/.addressbook >> ~/.addressbook && echo Done.
+
+You may wish to first copy your ~/.addressbook file to a backup file, 
+before executing this command. 
+
+If everything went well, it should say Done.  When you start Pine, there
+should now be a list in your address book with the name:  everyone,
+containing all of your address book nicknames (but NOT other lists). 
+
+
+--
+--
+William Burrow  --  Fredericton Area Network