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TO: EndNote Users Group

        I have just joined this group.  I enjoy only reading all topics a lot,
but now let I share my experience.
        About the question of how to import the different formats to
EndNote.  One of my colleagues, who cann't live without EndNote Mac
version, used EndNote to import the article from the CD-ROM MEDLINE 2
years ago.  At that time our library just implemented a new CD-ROM reading
machine to serve the member of the Faculty, but the CD-ROM MEDLINE which
our library subscribed was from the Cambridge Scientific Abstract Corp.
        Noone knew it didnot produce the output of NLM tag format, which
was a standard one, so he couldn't import the file kept from this MEDLINE.
He asked me to solve the problem.  Certainly, he was a Mac user as I knew
that he couldn't use another machine so that I tried to create the
translator on a Mac. Due to the Apple File Exchange was a standard
translator on this machine and had a user friendly interface, I wrote a AFE
translator resource for the solution.  It took about 3 month to finish
writing this resource with an offerred information from the Macintosh
Agency in Thailand.
        The translator has a small size because it is only a resource; the
main parts of program are in the AFE program itself.  It can be used with
any version of the Apple File Exchange, and work both Mac to Mac and IBM
to Mac translation.  Many of my colleague has tested it since one year
ago, and it quite works well.
        The function of the translator is:

                            translate (a CSA MEDLINE tags)


        AU: Author
        Greenes RA;Shortliffe EH
        TI: Title
        Medical Informatics: An Emerging Academic Discipline
        SO: Source
        JAMA; 1990;263(8);1114-20

                                to (a NLM tag)

        AU-Greenes RA;Shortliffe EH
        TI-Medical Informatics: An Emerging Academic Discipline
        SO-JAMA;1990;263(8);1114-20

        If author field is ommitted, the translator will add a blank AU
tag. After this translation, the translated file can be imported to
EndNote by Endlink.


TO: Niles

        It will be great if any one can write the own translator adding
into the selectable translator within EndNote, otherwise, EndNote can use a
AFE translator automatically;like AFE can use the translator of MacLink.


        I am please for any comment.

--Bordin

Bordin Sapsomboon,M.D.
Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital
Mahidol University
Bangkok
Thailand
oibss@chulkn.chula.ac.th