Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!acacia.Berkeley.EDU!munson From: munson@acacia.Berkeley.EDU (Ethan V. Munson) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: BibTeX 0.99c doesn't use $TEXBIB environment variable Message-ID: <12216@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 21 Mar 91 20:03:53 GMT References: Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: munson@cs.Berkeley.EDU (Ethan V. Munson) Organization: UCB CS Lines: 12 The current version of BibTeX in the Unix TeX distribution uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable to get the search path for .bib files. I can't find a manual page for bibtex anywhere in the distribution tree. It is only recently that the distributed code for BibTeX used a separate path from TEXINPUTS for the .bib files. I have no idea why earlier versions used TEXINPUTS for both style and database files. I also have no idea why it was decided to use an environment variable with a different name than the one chosen by Patashnik. Ethan Munson