michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (Michael Maxwell) (12/17/86)
(Not sure what group(s) to post this to...) `refer' seems to have some undocumented bugs and/or features... The latest one I've run across is that if a person's name happens to be the same as the name of a month, it can't be used to pick out the reference. I.e. if you have the following in your roff file: .[ May 1985 .] --refer actually bombs! The error message is: Assertion failed: file refer2.c, line 84 (where is refer2.c??) Next, I tried adding May's first name: .[ Robert May 1985 .] --refer picked up another Robert someone who had written a paper in 1985 (as well as May's paper, hence "too many hits"). I finally added a word from the title, and it picked up only the correct reference (although I assume it still ignored the word "May"). My question is, what other undocumented bugs/features does `refer' have? What experiences have other people had? Work-arounds? -- Mike Maxwell Boeing Advanced Technology Center arpa: michaelm@boeing.com uucp: uw-beaver!uw-june!bcsaic!michaelm