eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (10/07/84)
[] I am trying to maintain a sizeable bibliography using refer. Mine is approaching 4000 titles with all sorts of IEEE, ACM, and other keywords and some sizeable annotations. The work is being done on 4.2 using Bill Tuthill's improved refer system. My question is: has anybody determined any critical size limits? I did a search recently which resulted in the truncation of some annotations and I believe that good parts of the bibliography were not searched (like the latter half of the alphabet). Does anybody else have a bibliography of this size or larger? Can anybody comment on other size related problems? --eugene miya NASA Ames Res. Ctr. {hplabs,dual,hao,vortex}!ames!aurora!eugene emiya@ames-vmsb.ARPA
koen@ucla-cs.UUCP (10/10/84)
There are indeed limits to standard "refer". I had all sorts of problems once I got over 2000 references. However, a local guru recompiled refer with all constants doubled and that works for over 2000. Thus, it a matter of looking at the C source. -- Koenraad