Re: xgnokii import from file is broken

[Pawel Kot]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 30 2004, Reiner Steib wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 30 2004, Pawel Kot wrote:
> >> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Reiner Steib wrote:
> >>
> >>> after upgrading (from CVS around March; sorry, I don't know the exact
> >>> date) to current HEAD, importing contacts from a file in xgnokii
> >>> doesn't work anymore.  xgnokii can't even properly read files written
> >>> by xgnokii using export command.
> >>
> >> Suspected are the atgen changes. Which phone do you use?
> >
> > Siemens C35i (quite old).
>
> Any news on that?  How can I help to debug this problem?

That's just uninitialized memory. I'll commit the fix in few minutes. Or
just memset to 0 entry variable in
common/gsm-filetypes.c::gn_file_phonebook_raw_parse() at the beginning.

> In the meantime, I found out that I can write my phonebook (generated
> from BBDB with `bbdb-gnokii.el') with "gnokii --writephonebook -o <
> file", i.e. using the "-o" (--overwrite) option.
>
> This option is not documented in the manual: gnokii(1) still mentions
> "-i".

gnokii --help should be up to date. Manual page is updated only when
someone volunteers...

take care,
pkot
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