Re: Importing from CD-ROM

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From: Richard Thomas
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 14:37

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>     I'm intrigued by this as we've been very disatisfied with the results
>     of using EndLink. The main problems were the limited number of fields
>     it would extract and that it usually guessed wrong when setting the
>     Reference Type. We now use the approach of using a utility to
>     automatically convert downloads to Refer format, then importing from
>     that.
>
>     Would you say that the results of using EndLink are
>        (a) good
>        (b) adequate
>     or (c) less than adequate but better than nothing?
>
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EndLink is better than nothing, just.  It is definitely the weak link in
the EndNote system.  Niles should be worried when Papyrus gets a MAC
version on the market.



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