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In article <1373@ac.dal.ca> ireland@ac.dal.ca writes:
> Does anybody out there have experience getting Reference Update files into
> EndNote?  I'm considering writing a little program to do this (probably in
> HyperCard).  Will EndLink do the job?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

	If Reference Update uses the "standard" Medline database format, I
might have something that can help you.  It's not exactly what you want, but
not too far off.

	I wrote a program in C to run under Unix (called brs2bib) which
takes typescripts of BRS sessions (which are in Medline format) and converts
them to bib format, which EndNote can then import.  It's pretty smart about
skipping stuff it doesn't understand and makes a reasonable guess as to
which of several common variations on the standard format it's looking at.
You can feed it a raw typescript and it will skip past the login/query stuff
at the top and just parse the search results output).

	Anyway, if you want it, you can ftp pub/misc/brs2bib.shar from
goober.phri.nyu.edu.  It's public domain, so have fun and do with it what
you will.  It's really sort of a hack that grew, so sometimes it does, well,
interesting things.  You would be crazy to use the output of brs2bib without
first looking at it to make sure it didn't do anything completely nutso.
Fortunately, it tends to not make small mistakes; either it works, or it's
obvious that something went wrong.  The most common screwup is to mistake an
author's first name spelled out for a bunch of initials, which it then
proceedes to separate with periods, i.e. "ROGER RABBIT" should be turned
into "%A R. Rabbit" but sometimes becomes "%A R. O. G. E. R. Rabbit".
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