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> When using Endnote Plus under Desqview (a common multitasking
> environment for DOS), the cut-and-paste function of Desqview (which is
> very useful for clipping abstracts from text file into fields in
> Endnote) sometimes does not work.  Only a few characters from a 3-4
> line clipping gets transferred.

Well, it is a case of responding to myself, but I think I have found
the reason for this, which has to do not with Desqview, but rather
that of Endnote not allowing type-ahead.  Desqview (and many other
programs that allow text cut-and-paste) does so by creating a buffer
of characters, and then sending them to the program where they are to
be inserted as simulated keystrokes.  Desqview (unlike most text-based
programs) discard keystrokes it is not ready to process yet (try doing
a couple of commands fast and see).  This is not a problem when keying
in text from the keyboard, since Endnote normally can keep up, but
when keystrokes are transmitted from a buffer, they come to fast, and
are discarded.

Frankly, I think the lack of a type-ahead buffer in Endnote is a very
irritating feature, and that it should be discarded.  Lack of type-ahead
is often implemented as a "safety" feature to guard against inadvertent
data deletion, but it is an "lazy" way of doing it: a better "Undo" command
would be a better way to do it, or a facility for keeping an unchanged 
copy of the database until exiting the program.

-- 
Espen Andersen  (eandersen@hbs.harvard.edu)