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From: alexlau@thoth6.berkeley.edu (Actively Creates Leftovers)
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Subject: Re: Bibliography databases?
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Date: 10 May 88 19:56:34 GMT
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In article <2354@polyslo.UUCP> dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke) writes:
>In article <15453@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) writes:
>>I am looking for a database which is adept at handling bibliographys and 
>>notes on the accompanying papers.  It should have the ability to export 
>>the results to macwrite/MCWORD.  I have seen a product called "Professional
>>Bibloigraphic System" and I head that it had recently been renamed "Prolite"
>>Does anyone have expereinces with this product? Thanks.
>
>  This is quite what you asked for, but FullWrite has decent support for
>Bibloigraphies built into the product.  It's a neat Word Processor, try and
>find a demo to see if it will do what you want.
>
>David M. O'Rourke

Professional Bib. System (PBS) only reads to and writes from text-only
files, so it's not quite what you want, which is the importing/exporting
function.  Is that right?

I'm not too sure about Fullwrite Professional, but the bibliography
section isn't quite a database, per se...it's a paper-by-paper bib.
I got a demo disk from MacWorld Expo in January, and it didn't turn me
on like it has some of the other netters.

What _might_ be what you're looking for is "EndNote" from Niles &
Associates.  I hate to give a free plug like this, but I just saw
a demo of it today...it's very powerful, importing and exporting
MacWrite, Word and WriteNow file types.  No more plugging, but if
you want info you can call them up at (415) 655-6666.  It's scheduled
to be shipped in late June, so there's a little wait; there's a
possibility of WordPerfect file format compatibility coming soon,
and an IBM version in the works.

I thought I said no more plugging...oh, well...

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