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Hi all,

    Lately I have been trying to bring up bibtex by Oren Patashnik
on a DECstation 3100 (Ultrix 2.x, gcc 1.39). I had to start
from making a web2c and finally got a bibtex program which hangs after
printing 

The top-level auxiliary file: citex.aux
The style file: plain.bst

it should print 

Database file #1: knuth.bib

and quit (because I have access to a bibtex on an IBM RS/6000).
What I had to do is to change bibtex.c, so that the
while(true) loop in the main_body() function becomes while(i<10){...;i++}.
After this termination, the .bbl file seems to be OK.

   * Is there some package for the DECstation 3100 (Ultrix 2.x)
     which does not need all these processing involving
     web2c, sed, whatever. Why did not the author simply
     give us a clean C program? I had to pull off web2c from
     one place, and bibtex.tar.Z from another. 
     
   * is there anything fundamentally wrong with the above
     kludge (I mean I do know that bibtex.c is not supposed
     to be changed; but I do not know Pascal --- I am not
     a computer science graduate, despite my mail address).

   * BTW, what is the latest version of bibtex?

Thank you for any pointers

mingzuo shen