At 11:58 PM, he found an old version of the tool from 2014 on a university archive page. It ran without Java at all. He imported his draft. The citations generated in two seconds.
Leo stared. He had never installed Java. He didn’t even know what a runtime environment was—only that his paper’s bibliography was now a hostage. this application requires a java runtime environment
He had installed version 17. He checked the tool’s documentation: “Compatible with JRE 8 only.” At 11:58 PM, he found an old version