montra@ghost.unimi.it (Paolo Montrasio) (04/05/91)
I found an article (I think in alt.security, but I'm not sure)
about password security ("Foiling the cracker"", by Daniel V. Klein).
It is a troff formatted text, and it must printed using:
refer -k -l -P -e "file" | tbl | troff -ms
I'm on a HP-UX machine and I don't have refer. I looked for it in some
anonymous ftp site, but I did't find it.
Can anybody help?jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (04/08/91)
This question has been asked at least three times in this newsgroup in the past week or so, so I am going to post the response I have sent the last two people who have asked, rather than sending E-mail again. The refer(1) distributed with Unix is not freely redistributable, because it has AT&T copyrighted source code in it. I don't know of any freely redistributable reimplementation of refer. Perhaps CSRG will do it for 4.4BSD, but they haven't yet (or, at least, if they have, they haven't made the sources publicly available yet). Please let me know if you find a version of refer that is freely distributable. -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710
oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) (04/15/91)
In article <1991Apr7.234524.6739@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes: > I don't know of any freely redistributable reimplementation of refer. There has been a sophisticated PD alternative for refer around since 1982, and was distibuted as a part of 4.2 and 4.3 BSD user-contributed software. It is BIB, written by Timothy Budd (of LittleSmallTalk fame). Bib is not a clone of refer, but a replacement, and uses the same database format [with a few extensions of its own]. Bib is ftp-able from cs.orst.edu [128.193.32.1] under pub/budd. Along with bib, a TeX version of the same utility, tib, is also available. [those who really need it: if you cannot ftp, send me mail at oz@nexus.yorku.ca.] I include the man page for bib, for future information. The distribution includes additional documents. oz --- In seeking the unattainable, simplicity | Internet: oz@nexus.yorku.ca only gets in the way. -- Alan J. Perlis | Uucp: utai/utzoo!yunexus!oz --- bib/listrefs(1) USER COMMANDS bib/listrefs(1) NAME bib - bibliographic formatter listrefs - list bibliographic reference items SYNOPSIS bib [options] ... listrefs [options] ... DESCRIPTION Bib is a preprocessor for nroff or troff(1) that formats citations and bibliographies. For bib the input files (standard input default) are copied to the standard output, except for text between [. and .] pairs, which are assumed to be keywords for searching a bibliographic database. If a matching reference is found a citation is generated replac- ing the text. References are collected, optionally sorted, and written out at a location specified by the user. Cita- tion and reference formats are controlled by the -t option. Reference databases are created using the invert utility. The following options are available. Note that standard format styles (see the -t option) set options automatically. Thus if a standard format style is used the user need not indicate any further options for most documents. -aa reduce authors first names to abbreviations. -arnum reverse the first num author's names. If a number is not given all authors names are reversed. -ax print authors last names in Caps-Small Caps style. For example Budd becomes BUDD. This style is used by certain ACM publications. -cstr build citations according to the template str. See the reference format designers guide for more infor- mation on templates. -ea reduce editors first names to abbreviations. -ex print editors last names in Caps-Small Caps style (see -ax option). -ernum reverse the first num editors names. If a number is not given all editors names are reversed. -f instead of collecting references, dump each refer- ence immediately following the line on which the citation is placed (used for footnoted references). -i file -ifile process the indicated file, such as a file of defin- itions. (see technical report for a description of file format). -h replace citations to three or more adjacent refer- ence items with a hyphenated string (eg 2,3,4,5 becomes 2-5). This option implies the -o option. -nstr turn off indicated options. str must be composed of the letters afhosx. -o contiguous citations are ordered according the the reference list before being printed (default). -p file -pfile instead of searching the file INDEX, search the indicated reference files before searching the sys- tem file. files is a comma separated list of inverted indices, created using the invert utility. -sstr sort references according to the template str. -t type -ttype use the standard macros and switch settings for the indicated style to generate citations and refer- ences. There are a number of standard styles pro- vided. In addition users can generate their own style macros. See the format designers guide for details. Listrefs formats an entire reference database file. The files following the options should be reference database files. Options to listrefs are the same as for bib. FILES INDEX inverted index for reference database /usr/dict/papers/INDEXdefault system index /usr/lib/bmac/bmac.*formatting macro packages /usr/tmp/bibr* scratch file for collecting references /usr/tmp/bibp* output of pass one of bib SEE ALSO A UNIX Bibliographic Database Facility, Timothy A. Budd and Gary M. Levin, University of Arizona Technical Report 82-1, 1982. (includes format designers guide). invert(1), troff(1)