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From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Re: Byte Indexes (the saga continues)
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 11:46:47 EDT
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> ...!ihnp4!gargoyle!scott (Scott Deerwester) writes :
> Is there any particular reason *not* to use refer/bib format?
> -- 

Two reasons, first not everyone has a refer command (know of one for Xenix?)
so these people would derive know benefit from having it in bib format,
second I wouldn't expect that a lot of people would keep such a database on
their **ix systems anyway. Since a lot of interest is from the micro using
community the data base must originally aim for the lowest common 
denominator (ie those that only have BASIC available for writing code). I
am sure you or someone else could write a simple shell script to convert 
the text-only database to bib/refer format for people that needed it.

--Chuck

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