This will allow you to sync your Mac OS X Address Book with Pine. It'll take a few seconds if you have a few hundred contacts.

Sync your Mac OS X Address Book with Pine (.addressbook).scpt

-- adapted from http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=17762 but it actually works here
tell application "Address Book"
	set pineBook to ""
	-- Count people as we loop over all of the people in each group
	set i to 1
	repeat with thePerson in every person
		-- Check that there are e-mail entries for this person
		if email of thePerson exists then
			set theName to (name of thePerson) as string
			-- Output every e-mail address entered for this person
			set j to 1
			repeat with theEmail in emails of thePerson
				set theEmailAddress to (value of theEmail) as string
				set pineBook to pineBook & (theName & tab & theName & tab & theEmailAddress) as string
				set pineBook to pineBook & ("
") as string
				set j to j + 1
			end repeat
		end if
		set i to i + 1
	end repeat
	-- Output to file ~/.addressbook
	set pineBookFile to (((path to home folder) as string) & ".addressbook")
	try
		set the openPineBookFile to open for access file pineBookFile with write permission
		set eof of the openPineBookFile to 0
		write pineBook to the openPineBookFile starting at eof
		close access the openPineBookFile
		return
	on error
		try
			close access file pineBookFile
		end try
		-- Dump the result if there is a file error
		return pineBook
	end try
end tell