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   From peter@vuwisor.vuw.ac.nz Tue Feb  2 11:13:41 1988
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   From: peter@vuwisor.vuw.ac.nz
   To: postmaster@violet
   Subject: Refer enquiry
   Cc: peter@comp.vuw.ac.nz
   
   It would be appreciated if the following message could be passed
   on to Bill Tuthill (Computing Services, Univ. California, Berkeley)
   or to any of the co-developers of the Unix bibliography system Refer.
   
   Thank you for your assistance.

I have not been able to contact Bill Tuthill on the phone to ask
him what he wrote. (He now works at Sun Microsystems).

If I remember correctly, "refer" and "lookbib" was developped
by Bell Labs (they are in Unix version 7) and the rest
(eg. addbib, sortbib, etc.) was written at Berkeley.
   
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   We wish to transfer Refer from a Pyramid (with System 4.2) to an
   AT&T 3B2/400B (with System 5).
   
I have been told that "refer" program is part of Unix System V
release 2. So you should not have to transfer that.  

The Berkeley part is distributed as part of BSD Unix.

However you may want to consider upgrading to "BibIX" which is
a replacement for "refer" from the University of California at
San Francisico.  BibIX is derived from an earlier package called
"bib", created by Timothy A. Budd and Gary M. Levin at the
University of Arizona. Along with BibIX you will also need addbib
and sortbib from BSD Unix.  BibIX is currently packaged for
BSD Unix sites and does not include addbib and sortbib.  I ask
if those two problems can be added to the BibIX package distribution
tape.

Information about licensing of BSD Unix and BibIX (and licensing fees)
is available from:

	Campus Software Office
	295 Evans Hall
	University of California
	Berkeley, CA 94720
	(415) 643-7201
	cld-cso@cmsa.berkeley.edu

Send them your postal address and ask for BSD Unix and BibIX
information.

   We would be grateful for any useful
   tips that you can give us.  In particular:
   
   Are there any major snags or pitfalls that we need to be aware of?
   
I have been told there are difference between the BSD Unix and System V
Unix C libraries. The folks on the USENET news group "comp.lang.c"
(Internet mailing list info-c@brl.arpa) should be able to answer
questions about C programming differences under BSD Unix and
System V Unix.

   How efficient is Refer with reasonably large databases (say 10000 to
   20000 records)?

I have never benchmarked it.  AT&T or folks on USENET news group
"comp.text" maybe able to answer that. 
   
   (Any e-mail should be sent to  peter@vuwisor.vuw.ac.nz  via uunet.)
   
   Many thanks
             Peter Thomson (Victoria University, New Zealand)
   
Bill Wells

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