Evolution Address Book format

[Gerry Tool]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:26, David Jansen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:57:02AM -0600, Gerry Tool wrote:
> > Evolution seems to store its contact information in a file called
> > addressbook.db.
> > 
> > Does anyone know a program that will access this information outside
> > Evolution?  The .db extension suggests some database program.
> > 
> It is, evolution is linked against the Berkeley DB libraries (older version)
> and to confirm:
> 
> $ file evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db
> evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 7, native byte-order)
> 
> So in principle berkely db utilities should be able to access the addressbook.
> Haven't tried though...

Thanks for your reply.  I did a man db and found information about
dbopen.  Do you know of any applications/utilities that can be used to
open such a database and access the table information?

Is mysql useful for accessing .db files?

Thanks.

Gerry