jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Jeffrey K. Long) (09/29/89)
Someone asked me a question concerning the distribution of BibTeX that just
came across on comp.binaries.atari.st. In particular, he wanted to
know about the 'support' files that were mentioned in the documentation.
He suggested that I post a reply in case anyone else has any questions.
The only "support" files that one needs to run Bibtex (other than LaTeX and
all of its required .sty files, .fmt file, etc...) would be the version of
your desired bibliography .bst files. These are available on most systems,
and will have a ??????.bst type name. This is the file you specify when
you say something like: \bibliographystyle{ieee}
All of the other files mentioned by the documentation are produced by LaTeX
when you first LaTeX your source file. If you LaTeX the file foo.tex, you
will generate a file called foo.dvi and foo.aux. It is this foo.aux file
that BibTeX must be able to find to work its magic. Of course, you must
also have created your foo.bib file (the actual bibliograph database)
before you run BibTeX! If this is unclear (it seems unclear to me and I
just wrote it :-) ), then read Lamport's LaTeX book and ask someone who
has used BibTeX before.
If there is a strong enough desired expressed, I could probably gather some
of the .bst files around here and post them to the net.
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