Dave, I have a pile of addresses in my Palm Desktop address book on my Mac, but I’d really like to be able to use them from within some shell scripts, particularly to be able to build a quick reference of names and phone numbers. Is that even possible?

This is the kind of question I like to get, obscure and challenging! Let’s see what we can figure out…

First off, there’s really no way to easily swoop into the Palm Desktop database directly and manipulate data, so we’re going to need to export the address book into a text file.

Launch Palm Desktop then choose File -> Export…

That dialog box offers you the choice of…

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