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From: skdutta@cs.tamu.edu (Saumen K Dutta)
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Subject: Re: addbib for bibtex
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Date: 17 Aug 90 19:21:52 GMT
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Hi !

Sometime back I posted an article on this net <7342@helios.TAMU.EDU> 

-> I am writing a program which works like addbib (in refer) to
-> insert bibliography for bibtex. I am writing it in the
-> shell language of UNIX. I am interested to know if there is
-> any program already available to do the same.

I got the following responses from various people:
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From John Eaton (jwe@emx.utexas.edu)

About a year ago I picked up a set of programs to do this.  They are
written in C and include a library of routines meant to read, write,
and search BibTeX database files.

Here's part of the man page:

     NAME
          bibtools
            bibc  - Create BibTeX and scribe style bibliographies
            bibv  - Verify a series of BibTeX style bibliographies for
                    citation conflicts
            shbib - Display one or more records from the specified bib files
            rmbib - Delete one or more records from the specified bib files

     DESCRIPTION
          bibc (mnemonic for BIB-Creator) is a prompt based tool for
          creating bibliographies in the BibTeX format.  bibc first
          queries the user for the kind of record they wish to create.
          bibc understands the various fields required for the kind of
          record specified, and will query the user for the values for
          each of these fields.  bibc can distinguish between required
          and optional fields, and will, by default insist once on the
          user specifying the required fields.

     AUTHOR
          Kannan Varadhan  - kannan@osc.edu

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From Lucien Van Elsen (lwvanels@mit.edu)

There's already a set of programs that do that already, with some added
functionality.  They were posted to comp.sources.misc a while back:

comp.sources.misc:bibtools   v09i046: bibtools:  tools for BibTeX

They're written in C, and available for anonymous ftp from uunet.uu.net
and other archive sites.

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From B. A. Lotto  (lotto@bosco.berkeley.edu)

There is a bibtex mode for emacs which I use and like.  It does all the
things you seem to want such an object to do, but it requires emacs.

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From Sanjiv K. Bhatia (sanjiv@fergvax.unl.edu)


Here is a shellscript.  It uses another file called bibtypes that contains the
definitions of fields.  bibtypes is appended after the first file.

TOO BIG TO INCLUDE HERE. THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED WRITE TO SANJIV AT THE
ADDRESS GIVEN ABOVE.

IT WORKS, IT DOES NOT LET YOU TO EDIT THE DATABASE WITHIN THE PROGRAM AND
DOES NOT CHECK FOR DUPLICATE KEY REFERENCES. 

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FEW MORE REPLIES ........ BUT THEY DID NOT SAY ANYTHING DIFFERENT.

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Finally I rewrote my shell script and added few more functions to
it. I think it is complete now . If you like to give it a try please copy
it from my next posting.




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