🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Nov17.003950.25377@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
anon01ae@nyx.cs.du.edu (Danny J. Blubaugh) wrote:

> I subscribe to Reference Update, which will write a file in Medline format.
> I wrote a short BASIC program that converts the file into Refer format for
> loading into EndNote.  I use a MAC, but it is much easier to program the
> IBM.  Hence, I have Reference Update write a file on the MAC.  I then
> use the standard Apple File Exchange to transfer the file to an
> IBM-formatted diskette.  I put the diskette in the IBM, run my little
> BASIC program, bring the diskette back to the MAC and use Apple File
> Exchange to transfer the file onto the MAC, then import the references
> into EndNote.  It takes about 5 minutes altogether.  I'll be happy to send
> the program to anyone interested in it (e-mail me at blubaugh@cc.usu.edu).
> With a little modification, one could use it to convert other formats as
> well.



Why go through all this when you can use EndLink to import the
Medline-formatted RefUpdate text files directly? 

-- 
Peter Heifetz
Duke University Department of Botany