libwab 060901 review

Libwab is a little command line utility that you can use to export your addresses from a Windows Address Book (used in Microsoft Outl

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 114K Developer: Sean Loaring

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Libwab is a little command line utility that you can use to export your addresses from a Windows Address Book (used in Microsoft Outlook Express).

Simply compile and run it on a .wab file and than it should dump the file in ldif format (a nice ascii format used in ldap).

libwab now has heuristic mode. This allows you to:

recover deleted address records
recover data from a damanged file

USING

Wabread will excrete output to stdout. So you'll want to do something like this:

$ ./wabread mywabfile.wab >mywabdata.ldif

For more information run wabread with nothing on the command line.

$ ./wabread

Use: wabread [options] < filename.wab >

Options:

-d # set debugging (logical or 1,2,3,4...)
-h heuristic record dump: attempt to
recover a broken .wab file
-c display extra crud.