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From: raja@bombay.cps.msu.edu (Narayan S. Raja)
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Subject: Re: Bibliographic Systems
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Date: 1 Feb 91 07:33:28 GMT
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In article <1088@borg.cs.unc.edu>, menges@menges.cs.unc.edu (John
Menges) writes:

< Can anyone direct my to any bibliographic system that has some kind of
< X interface?

Yes, "bibcard" runs under X.  It allows
browsing/editing of BibTeX bibliographies.
Has bugs.  Not sure from where it's
available.


<  Alternatively, what bibliographic systems other than
< "bib" are available for UNIX?

If you use BibTeX, addbib-tex (I think it
comes with the LaTeX distribution) will
allow you to add/edit a BibTeX database
interactively.

In addition, if perl is installed on your
system, I VERY HIGHLY RECOMMEND a perl
script called "lookbibtex" which can query
BibTeX databases and extract complete
entries.  lokbibtex is available with the
other scripts in the perl distribution.
I have a patch to it which makes it less
restrictive in the BiBteX format it expects --
email me if interested.


Narayan Sriranga Raja.