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From: smoot@roger-rabbit.Berkeley.EDU (Stephen [Steve] R Smoot)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Refer to BibTex format
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.230428.28134@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 91 23:04:28 GMT
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In article <1991Jun27.042443.14856@cs.sfu.ca>, lyn@cs.sfu.ca (Lyn Bartram) writes:
> I seem to remember hearing a rumour, lo these many moons ago, of a tool to
> convert bibliography files in "refer" format to BibTex format.  IS there
> such a thing, and if there is, (how) can i obtain it?
> lyn@cs.sfu.ca	Lyn Bartram

Its a FAQ.

>    refer/Tib - There are a few programs for converting bibliographic data
>      between BibTeX and refer/Tib formats.  They are available via
>      anonymous ftp from ftp.ai.mit.edu
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                          a change ferom the last FAQ I read.
>                                       in the
>       directory pub/refer-to-bibtex.  In spite of the directory name,
>       it also contains a  shell script to convert BibTeX to REFER as
>       well. This collection is maintained by
>       Thomas M. Breuel (tmb@ai.mit.edu).

-s