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Sorry for any redundancies....

I would really like to know if the following has been done or is possible:

[simple]
A script to run database entries into melvyl then mail the results

[more detailed]
In order to speed up the process of converting my file cabinet onto an
EndNote DB (1.2 for Mac) I use a FileMaker database where I enter:

-year
-Author (one or more)
-A couple select title words.

I then export this into Word and do some search and replaces so that I get
text lines:

f AU X and Y and TW A B C

I then  CUT AND PASTE these into a melvyl session saving to a list.  I then
mail the results with Medline tags and import them into Endnote with
Endlink.

This is no speedy process but I feel it is still faster, more accurate, and
will give me more info (ie abs) then entering in everything by hand.
Ideally I would like to script the whole process using apple events.  I've
heard FileMaker has very good scripting ability.

At a minimum (and here is the real question) is there any existing script
or something like that that will input text (F AU ...), wait for a prompt
(MED->), input text (sav 1-) repeat, then tell melvyl to mail the list?
This may seem like its asking alot but I've seen dialin scripts do very
similar things.  Like many, I loathe having to type in  my entire cabinet.

  Again sorry for the various redundancies in the lists

-Preston Holmes


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Preston Holmes                  (h)619-453-9209
Dept. of Neuroscience, UCSD
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