tarnoff@cme.nbs.gov (Nicholas Tarnoff) (07/01/89)
The following are replies (and followup info. in some cases) to my
search for a public domain text database system that runs on Suns.
My investigations of the following are at various stages of completion
and I have not tried any of them. Bibliofile looks the most promising
however based on length of time in use, etc.
Please send me any additional info. you may have on pd databases.
Thank you and good luck.
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Subject: Re: WANTED: public domain biblio. DB system
Reply-To: abrams%smiley@gateway.mitre.org
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 09:09:43 -0400
From: (Marshall D. Abrams) <abrams%vlad@gateway.mitre.org>
Status: RO
We made a search and selected two products: For interactive work we are
using Gnubib written by Zoltan Somogyi at the University of
Melborne <zs%munnari.oz@uunet.uu.net>. This is public domain.
... We are beta testing Gnubib. ...contact Zoltan at the address I
gave you.
Sincerely,
- Marshall D. Abrams, phone: (703) 883-6938
The MITRE Corporation, 7525 Colshire Drive
Mail Stop Z506, Mc Lean, VA 22102
best e-mail address: abrams%smiley@gateway.mitre.org
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Date: 1 Jun 89 20:09:25 GMT
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Reply-To: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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For info on the "Bibliofile" system;
Earl H. Kinmonth
History Department
University of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616
916-752-1636 (2300-0800 PDT for FAX)
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 89 11:03:09 PDT
From: rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.EDU
Message-Id: <8906071803.AA19435@clausius.mmwb.ucsf.edu>
To: tarnoff@cme.nbs.gov
Subject: bibliographic database systems
Status: R
You may want to investigate bib, which was intended as a replacement for
refer. It is public domain (pd) and is available on the 4.3 BSD tape as well
as many ftp archive sites. It is much less buggy than refer, but still has
problems. If you are willing to depart from the pd realm, I would recommend
bibIX, which is distributed by the Berkeley Campus Software Office (I am the
principal author; ....(LONG-not included)
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Date: 5 Jun 89 16:40:58 GMT
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Reply-To: jordan@cs.columbia.edu (Jordan Hayes)
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To: kam@itivax.iti.org
Have you seen TOPIC from Verity? Runs on Sun/UNIX, VMS, MS-DOS, etc.,
and is pretty extensive. Contact mcation@verity.com for more information
(hi mike!) ...
/jordan
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 89 13:38:50 -0400
From: James C. Benz <jcbst3@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>
Message-Id: <8906121738.AA23794@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>
To: tarnoff@cme.nbs.gov
Subject: PD databases
Status: R
A Jonathan Krueger suggested University INGRES which can be ftp'd from
postgres.berkeley.edu... Don't know anything about it, only his recommendation
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 22:37:24 EDT
From: montnaro@sprite.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro)
Message-Id: <8906220237.AA01108@sprite.crd.Ge.Com>
To: tarnoff@cme.nist.gov
Subject: Re: WANTED: public domain biblio. DB system
Reply-To: <montanaro@sprite.crd.ge.com> (Skip Montanaro)
Status: R
I don't know how simplistic you want to get, but there are a couple of Emacs
Lisp packages for GNU Emacs that allow you to manipulate BibTeX format
bibliographies in a crude fashion. One implements a bibtex mode,
another converts refer to bibtex format, and the third allows you to
perform simple keyword searches on a set of bibtex format files.
Skip Montanaro (montanaro@sprite.crd.ge.com)
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 09:49:37 EDT
From: wms@sunbar.mc.duke.edu
Message-Id: <8906221349.AA27771@bill.mc.duke.edu>
To: tarnoff@cme.nist.gov
Subject: bibliography system
Status: RO
We have had good luck with a public domain system that was developed at
the University of Arizona Department of Computer Science. Like refer,
it produces troff output, and it uses the same input format. The
most difficult task for us was writing macros to conform to the formats
of medical journals, but it comes with macros for many technical
journals. There is a technical report from the University of Arizona,
No. TR 82-1, by Timothy A. Budd and Gary M. Levin, March, 1982,
describing their system. Good luck.
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