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I'd like to third Mark Andrews' comment about lack of flexibility in how
Endnote finds duplicates. This is a particularly severe limitation because
of the lack of any really slick way to merge reference data files. I'd like
to be able to exchange reference files with my students and collegues.
However, merging files with 2000 to 3000 references isn't something you do
routinely, and it's almost out of the question with the find duplicates
option as limited as it is. I don't suppose there is some clever
work-around to all of this that I haven't discovered yet???

Of course, what I really want to be able to do is share a single reference
data base file from over the network. We have lots of Macs on ethernet but
haven't really put this to the test yet. I would like to hear from some
folks who have experience doing this. What problems should we expect? Is
there any way to get around the restriction that only one machine can edit
the file even though many can use it?

Eventually, we'll get all of the DOS machines on the network too. Then I
would like to be able to have Windows and Mac users of Endnote all share
the same reference file... I hope this will work, anyone have any
experience with this?

There is interest in setting up a reference database for our whole
department. I would love to propose Endnote as the most useful format in
which to do that. Unfortunately, I understand there are no plans to make
Endnote available on UNIX and that leaves it out of the running.




Paul G. Tratnyek, Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
19600 NW von Neumann Drive
Beaverton, OR  97006-1999

Internet: tratnyek@ese.ogi.edu
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