Need information concerning on-line Physicians Desk Reference
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> I am in need of a Physicians Desk Reference in computer readable
>format. I am particularly interested in the information about the
>pharmaceutical companies. If anyone knows where I can get this information
>it would be greatly appreciated. I need to get this information ASAP.
The PDR is published on CD-ROM. Unfortunately, it is easily accessed
only under DOS, and only through the proprietary DOS program which
provides the user interface to the database. The CD-ROM itself is an
ISO9660 filesystem, but it contains a single monolithic file which is
a jumble of binary bookkeeping data and the PDR text. I don't know if
you can get the data on the exact format of this database file.
I have it mounted on my Sun workstation and it's quite unrewarding trying to
use EMACS to search for drug entries. :-)
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Steve Dyer
