[Usefulness of the interchangeable medical bibliography: introduction of "reference transform utility" program for Macintosh].

We made a text file format exchange program on HyperCard 2.0 for medical bibliography. Some database applications on Macintosh to manage the medical bibliography were available. FileMaker ProJ, EndNotePlus and Microsoft Excel were well known as popular databases and spread sheet application for Macintosh. The data format among the applications is not uniform. We need to translate a data format into another format to share the same data among these database applications. But it requires a lot of time and labor to make this conversion by manual operation. We have developed a file conversion utility program with HyperCard as a user friendly software.