Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!ucbvax!GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU!netinfo From: netinfo@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU (Postmaster & BITINFO) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Porting refer and related programs Message-ID: <8802040558.AA21318@garnet.berkeley.edu> Date: 4 Feb 88 05:58:27 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 88 In reply to: From peter@vuwisor.vuw.ac.nz Tue Feb 2 11:13:41 1988 Received: from comp.vuw.ac.nz!vuwisor.vuw.ac.nz by uunet.UU.NET (5.54/1.14) with UUCP id AA04975; Tue, 2 Feb 88 13:01:47 EST Message-Id: <8802020534.AA09793@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1988 18:01:09 NDT From: peter@vuwisor.vuw.ac.nz To: postmaster@violet Subject: Refer enquiry Cc: peter@comp.vuw.ac.nz It would be appreciated if the following message could be passed on to Bill Tuthill (Computing Services, Univ. California, Berkeley) or to any of the co-developers of the Unix bibliography system Refer. Thank you for your assistance. I have not been able to contact Bill Tuthill on the phone to ask him what he wrote. (He now works at Sun Microsystems). If I remember correctly, "refer" and "lookbib" was developped by Bell Labs (they are in Unix version 7) and the rest (eg. addbib, sortbib, etc.) was written at Berkeley. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We wish to transfer Refer from a Pyramid (with System 4.2) to an AT&T 3B2/400B (with System 5). I have been told that "refer" program is part of Unix System V release 2. So you should not have to transfer that. The Berkeley part is distributed as part of BSD Unix. However you may want to consider upgrading to "BibIX" which is a replacement for "refer" from the University of California at San Francisico. BibIX is derived from an earlier package called "bib", created by Timothy A. Budd and Gary M. Levin at the University of Arizona. Along with BibIX you will also need addbib and sortbib from BSD Unix. BibIX is currently packaged for BSD Unix sites and does not include addbib and sortbib. I ask if those two problems can be added to the BibIX package distribution tape. Information about licensing of BSD Unix and BibIX (and licensing fees) is available from: Campus Software Office 295 Evans Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 (415) 643-7201 cld-cso@cmsa.berkeley.edu Send them your postal address and ask for BSD Unix and BibIX information. We would be grateful for any useful tips that you can give us. In particular: Are there any major snags or pitfalls that we need to be aware of? I have been told there are difference between the BSD Unix and System V Unix C libraries. The folks on the USENET news group "comp.lang.c" (Internet mailing list info-c@brl.arpa) should be able to answer questions about C programming differences under BSD Unix and System V Unix. How efficient is Refer with reasonably large databases (say 10000 to 20000 records)? I have never benchmarked it. AT&T or folks on USENET news group "comp.text" maybe able to answer that. (Any e-mail should be sent to peter@vuwisor.vuw.ac.nz via uunet.) Many thanks Peter Thomson (Victoria University, New Zealand) Bill Wells ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | William Wells (COML: 1-415-642-9801, ATSS: 582-9801) | | Data Communication & Network Services postmaster@jade.berkeley.edu | | University of California at Berkeley netinfo@jade.berkeley.edu | | 291 Evans Hall NETINFO at UCBGARNE (PUN/PRT) | | Berkeley, CA 94720 ucbvax!jade!postmaster | ------------------------------------------------------------------------