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>In article <199307061313.AA19232@postoffice.mail.cornell.edu>, Chris Brown
><ccb3@CORNELL.EDU> wrote:
>>
>> >>On Fri, 2 Jul 1993, Chris Brown wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I then use a very excellent
>> >>> text/macro editor for the Mac called QUED/M to transform the Harvard
>tagged
>> >>> fields to Refer format for import into EndNote.
>> >>
>> >>Sounds like a great system.  What is the status of QUED/M --
>> >>shareware, commercial?  Where is it available and at what cost?
>> >>Might other programs accomplish the same goal?
>> >
>> >QUED is shareware if I am not mistaken. But it is incompatible with system
>> >7.1. I use another shareware product, Alpha 5.31, for similar purposes.
>> >
>> >EJAN MACKAAY
>>
>> Sorry, but Mr. Mackaay's information is incorrect in both respects.  QUED/M
>> is commercial software, sold by Nisus.  I run version 2.5 with no problems
>> whatsoever on system 7.1.  He must be thinking of some other product.
>> Chris.
>>
>Another good candidate is Vantage, the commercial version of what is/was
>called McSink (shareware).
>Vantage is inexpensive, versatile, and for the tryly dedicated, provides
>links to macros and
>external routines.
>
>Lewis Overton, University of Alaska: snalo@orca.alaska.edu

I tried using McSink before sinking almost $100 into QUED/M, but it just
couldn't perform the complex operations needed to transform some
bibliographic records into EndNote.  I wasn't just looking for a text
editor with simple search and replace features; I needed to deal with
complex MARC records from a number of sources.  For example, MARC records
have 2 kind of fields:  fixed fields and variable fields.  The variable
fields have any number of subfields.  For example, the 260 field contains
(unfortunately) the city of publication, the publisher, and the date.  The
trick is to extract the relevant information based upon patterns of
punctuation and other contextual clues.  This is no small feat!  McSink and
Vantage just didn't have the power that QUED/M did.  But if you can get
them to do it, more power to you!  Chris.

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