The Mulberry FAQ

What is the format of the Mulberry address book?


Mulberry uses a tab-delimited text format for storage of local address books. On network address books, the format is stored slightly differently depending on which protocol (IMSP or ACAP) is used. For the practical purposes of importing external address books, however, the field order for importing to a network address book is the same as a local Mulberry address book.

Mulberry currently can import the following address book formats:

Mulberry can also export to any of these formats.

Hint: more than one Mulberry user has observed that Mulberry can be a very easy to use tool if you need to translate from one of the above formats to another, as at this writing these other programs don't understand one another's formats. Cute!

The field order for a Mulberry address book is as follows. <tab> represents a 'tab' character, and <LINEEND> represents a line end character sequence for the OS on which the address book is used, and marks the end of a single entry.

Fields listed in boldface above can contain more than one line of data, and can contain tab characters. To indicate this in a source document for translation, use "C" programming language style 'escape' characters: