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Re: Bibliographic Formats

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From: Matthias Imhof
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 14:05
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In article <1992Aug31.215407.22911@PA.dec.com> klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)  
writes:
>>  |> Can anybody tell me what the format is for references 
>>  |> of the following type ?
>>  |> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>  |> %A A.H. Barr
>>  |> %T Ray Tracing Deformed Surfaces
>>  
>>  This is UNIX refer format.  The "addbib" man page lists these tokens:
>>  
>>            %A   Author's name
>>            %Y,Z ignored by refer
>>  
>>  Refer is a (somewhat) primitive set of tools for editing, sorting, and
>>  printing bibliographies that use these tokens.  It comes free with most
>>  UNIX
>>  systems.  Type "man refer" on a UNIX system for more info.
>>  

now the new question is, is there a way to go from refer to bibtex? is there
a tex-utility which generates a *.bib file out of a refer/addbib bibliography?

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