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Re: looking for troff bib to BiBTeX

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From: David J. Sturman
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 1990 15:47
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In article <1990May31.165417.10534@cs.UAlberta.CA> fode@cs.UAlberta.CA (Peter Fode) writes:
>	I'm looking for program that converts bibliographies from the troff 
>form into BibTeX. It would save me some time if I didn't have to write 
>a program.

Rather than convert to BibTeX you can use Tib which reads refer (troff)
databases and generates TeX or Latex references.  I've been using it
for a while now and am very pleased with it.  The latest version is
v2.2 and can be gotten via anonymous ftp from minos.inria.fr(128.93.39.5).

David Sturman
MIT Media Lab
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From: djs@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (David J. Sturman)
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Subject: Re: looking for troff bib to BiBTeX
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Date: 1 Jun 90 15:47:20 GMT
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