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mrABChange

NOTE

Use of these commands is not recommended as they are no longer officially supported and may not work as intended.

Description

Change the field of an Address Book contact

Syntax (following correct mrFile)

mrABChange <Issue number>

line 1 of new data
.

line 2 of new data
.

etc

For each field in the Address Book, a line (or lines) of new data is optional, followed by a mandatory '.' on a line of its own. Any lines, which have new data, will replace the corresponding field in the Issue. The workspace fields in the Address Book can be found in $ABMASTER/MR/Schema.

Example

mrABChange 1
new name
.
.
.

new phone
.

In this case, the first field will be replaced by the words 'new name', and the fourth field will be replaced with 'new phone'.