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Subject: Re: Printing Bibliographies
Summary: What if \nocite{*} DOESN' T work?
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Date: 26 Feb 91 18:25:59 GMT
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\nocite{*} doesn't work at my location, so I assume we DON'T have BiBTeX version
.99 (or whatever we needed.  Is there any way to generate all your nocites anyway?

Well...I've done it with a couple AWK programs.  For example, for math.bib, to 
built a file of nocites, use:

   cat math.bib | awk '/@/' | awk -f nocite.awk > math.nocites

Where nocite.awk contains the following:
  
  { t = $1
    f = index(t,"{")+1
    l = length(t) - f
    s = substr(t,f,1)
    print "\\nocite{"s"}"
  }

This was my first AWK program, so it is probably not as efficient at possible.
But what I've shown here worked quite nicely to generate all the \nocite's I 
needed in order to print my bibliography.


James.