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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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Subject: Re: Request (again) for bibliographic database software
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Date: 18 Jul 89 15:38:05 GMT
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In article <2216@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> rolands@csupwb.colostate.edu (Roland Schweitzer) writes:

>I am looking for IBM PC (MSDOS and a clone actually) software that 
>will allow me to keep a database of bibliographic references for technical
>and scientific journal articles and books.

>So far I have come across a program called Book Minder ( PC-SIG disk 1178,
>available from uxa.cso.uiuc.edu in .../pcsig/disk1178.arc ).  It has a 
>couple of minor problems I would like to avoid.  The space for the title
>seems too small for tech. references.  (This could be over come with the
>other entries.)  It also leaves my EGA monitor in a terrible state when
>it exits.
>
>The requirement for PC software leaves out any of the standard tools 
>available with UNIX text processing.

Have you considered Bibliofile? Bibliofile is a set of tools for
managing flat files. The basic tools are ked (ex-style editor,
interface to vi), kord (interface to sort), kwik (interactive grep),
kref (uses key words to insert bibliographic references in texts), and
kawk (C interpreter that accepts data base fields as variables).

Bibliofile runs under **IX (SCO Xenix, BSD UNIX, Ultrix) on hardware
from AT-clones to VAXen to Suns. It also is available in an essentially
identical version for MSDOS.

Bibliofile does NOT have any limitation on (a) number of data fields
per record or (b) length of any one data field.

Bibliofile is currently priced at $0.00 but that may double in the near
future.

For information on Bibliofile write to the address below (not the one
you get by using the r/R commands of the newsreader).

Earl H. Kinmonth
History Department
University of California, Davis
916-752-1636 (voice, fax [2300-0800 PDT])
916-752-0776 secretary

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