Medrite Conversion -- and Meditech

I understand there is a way to convert your glossary from Medrite into IT. Can you please tell me how to do this?

Here are instructions:

1. Find the medrite list.

   If you do not know where it is, your system person should be able to help. This file is going to be a file in a format known as "DBF" and it is likely to be old. So the next step is to normalize it:
    

2. Open the file in Excel and save it back to dbf4 format
3. Use the Importer to import the dbf4 file to a glossary

Once you know the procedure, it should take a minute or two per file.

I have some very large glossary entries in Medrite, how will this work in IT since 7-8 lines of text is suggested for a glossary entry in IT?

This is a separate issue linked to Meditech: IT does not limit the length of entries (there is a limit, but it is a large number of pages). On the other hand, when you are using the old version of Meditech -- called Magic or T.exe -- over a dialup line, there is no way that it will expand several pages instantaneously as the characters must go through the slow phone line.

To avoid choking the terminal emulator and Meditech, IT uses a fast method when the entry is 6 lines or less and a slower method otherwise. The slower method uses the clipboard and you can see easily how slowly it works if you try to paste a page in Meditech (with or without Instant Text).

Jean Ichbiah