Address Book-to-HTML Converter for Eudora v1.70 ----------------------------------------------- What it Does ------------ The Address Book-to-HTML Converter (NN2HTM for short) will convert Eudora's Address Book files to HTML format for posting on-line or viewing/printing with a Web browser. Since Eudora's Address Books are formatted text files you could use a text editor or word processor to view and print the files, but if you have notes and addresses in your Address Book, the result may not be easily readable. NN2HTM reads an Address Book and creates a Web page with columns in the following format: +---------------------+-----------------------+---------------------+ | | Name | | | Nickname | Address | Notes | | Email Address(es) | Phone | | | | Fax | | +---------------------+-----------------------+---------------------+ Organizations that use Eudora and would like to publish Address Books on their Intranet could find this utility useful. Just update your Address Book(s) in Eudora and run NN2HTM to create a Web page, ready for posting to a Web server. Requirements ------------ * Eudora 1.5x or above. It may also work with version 1.44. * Windows 95 or Windows NT * Visual Basic 5.0 Runtime DLL (msvbvm50.dll) * Microsoft Common Dialog ActiveX Control (comdlg32.ocx) Installation ------------ 1. Copy NN2HTM.EXE to a directory. You can put it in your Eudora directory or you can create a directory just for the program. 2. Copy MSVBVM50.DLL and COMDLG32.OCX to your Windows\System directory. If you already have a copies there you can skip this step. DO NOT OVERWRITE EXISTING FILES WITH THE FILES INCLUDED WITH THIS SOFTWARE. You can check the version numbers of all relevant files to determine if you wish to replace them with newer versions. Just right-click on the file in windows Explorer and view it's properties. 3. Create a shortcut for NN2HTM if desired. Using the Program ----------------- When the program is first started, the name of Eudora's default address book is automatically inserted. If Eudora was installed in a different directory or this isn't the Address Book you want to convert, just browse and find the desired Address Book, then click the Convert button or press [Enter]. The program will read the Address Book and display the number of Nicknames converted. the display is updated after every 5th conversion, so if our Address Book is small it may finish too fast to update the screen with the conversion count while it's running. When done, the total number of Nicknames converted will be displayed, along with the name of the resulting HTML file. Just press the "View" button to view the HTML file using your web browser. When you close the program it will save the name of the Address Books you converted so that when you start it again the name of the last Address Book you converted will be displayed. Other converted Address Books will be listed in the drop-down box. The size of the printed page depends on the width of your browser window. If the information runs off the right side of the page, try changing the width of your browser window. Changes From Version 1.64 ------------------------- * Added Alphabetical Index with links to return to the top of the page. * Added Name to email address links so that the recipient's name will appear in outgoing email messages. Limitations ----------- * Files edited outside Eudora sometimes cause NN2HTM to fail. If you edit your Address Book with a text editor, open and save it from within Eudora to ensure it's saved in Eudora's format. * Nicknames with a large number of addresses *may* cause NN2HTM to fail. It have used 150 addresses per Nickname without problems. * NN2HTM will not convert nicknames with multiple addresses into links. The addresses will be listed one per line, but will not be displayed as links. Acknowledgements ---------------- Thanks to Adam Kippes, Fel-X, and Roger Lavallee for help in testing, interface design, and feature suggestions. License ------- This is Open Source software, and is covered by the GNU Public License. See the COPYING file for details. Or visit the Free Software Foundation web site at . Maintainer ---------- Anthony E. Greene Home Page: