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Re: Porting refer and related programs

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From: George Hartzell
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1988 04:31
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In article <41055@sun.uucp> tut%cairo@Sun.COM (Bill Tuthill) writes:
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>From what I've heard, bib is better than refer.  I can't say, having
>never used bib.  I haven't worked on bibliographies since I left UCB.

I don't remember reading the original article, so I don't know how
deeply entrenched in troff you are, but there is a freely available
system for TeX, called tib, that seems very powerful.  It is a
pre-processor modeled after bib.  It is available on the Unix-tex
distribution tape from the University of Washington.


George Hartzell			                 (303) 492-4535
MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
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From: hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell)
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Subject: Re: Porting refer and related programs
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