Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-07 Thread aprilk
I think licq comes with ways to convert them from windows to what it uses (text files). That just might help you. Or I can just extract the script and pass that along. They are perl scripts for the different versions of icq. April Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, if there wer

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> Well, if there were actually anything *useful* in those files, I sure > couldn't tell. One appeared to be a dialogue that was saved, the rest > were random 4 character bits of text. And there was one that seemed to be > linked to porn. *sigh* I think you're going to have to convert them or d

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 6, Jeff Dike conjectured: > > Strings? How do I do that? Then how do I get the stuff from the > > output? > > strings is a very handy little utility. 'strings filename' goes through > filename printing out anything that looks like text. Well, if there were actually anything *useful*

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Jeff Dike
> Strings? How do I do that? Then how do I get the stuff from the > output? strings is a very handy little utility. 'strings filename' goes through filename printing out anything that looks like text. It is a zero-order approximation to any number of blah2txt utilities :-) In this case, it

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 6, Laurel Fan conjectured: > > Yeah, I didn't read the message after that before replying, sorry... 'Sokay :) > So in my reply to that, I said basically "yes, probably a version > problem". Since upgrading ICQ is not an option, have you tried strings > on the files? If that works, you

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Mar-100 Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/i.. by Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one > I tried that. It sat there and froze up. I tried putting the idx file in > ~, and that didn't help either. My ICQ version is not ICQ99. so I don't > know if this is a version compatibility problem, a

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> Well, I can't tell if this is working. It appears not to be. All it does > is freeze my mouse and sit there blankly. It's asking specifically for > icq99 idx files, and I have an older version. COuld this be causing the > trouble? the db files from a version earlier than 99 (like 98 ;o)) a

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Mar-100 Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/i.. by Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one > Well, I can't tell if this is working. It appears not to be. All it does > is freeze my mouse and sit there blankly. It's asking specifically for > icq99 idx files, and I have an older version. COul

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 6, Laurel Fan conjectured: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Mar-100 Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/i.. by > Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one > > A ls of that directory gives me uin.dat and uin.idx. 'more'ing them gives > > me garble. If it's possible to import the file, that might work, but I > > haven'

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Mar-100 Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/i.. by Lighthouse t. D. Sun@one > A ls of that directory gives me uin.dat and uin.idx. 'more'ing them gives > me garble. If it's possible to import the file, that might work, but I > haven't seen a way to do that yet. I can look more

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 6, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun conjectured: > > A ls of that directory gives me uin.dat and uin.idx. 'more'ing them gives > me garble. If it's possible to import the file, that might work, but I > haven't seen a way to do that yet. I can look more, though. Well, I can't tell i

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
On Mar 6, aprilk conjectured: > > > In the icq directory there is one called 'Db99b' if you have one of the more recent >versions or 'Db' for the older ones I think, it has files in there with your icq uin. >Those are your contact list and history databases. > I don't know if everybuddy uses th

Re: [techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-06 Thread aprilk
Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Since I was having infinite trouble getting ICU to work, I went and >downloaded everybuddy. Now I need to get my ICQ contact list back. THat >means booting windows, though, unless it's findable in my windows >partition from under li

[techtalk] everybuddy/icq trouble

2000-03-03 Thread Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
Since I was having infinite trouble getting ICU to work, I went and downloaded everybuddy. Now I need to get my ICQ contact list back. THat means booting windows, though, unless it's findable in my windows partition from under linux. It appears not to be so. I've been searching the directory w