tarnoff@cme.nist.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. ======================================== >From: (Marshall D. Abrams) <abrams%vlad@gateway.mitre.org> 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 ============================================================ >From: cck@cc-dnet.ucdavis.edu 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) 916-752-0776 (secretary) ----->ucbvax!ucdavis!ucdked!cck (email) cc-dnet.ucdavis.edu [128.120.2.251] (request ucdked, login as guest) ======================================================================= > From: rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.EDU 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) =========================================== 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 #include <std/disclaimer.h> ============================================================== >From: James C. Benz <jcbst3@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu> A Jonathan Krueger suggested University INGRES which can be ftp'd from postgres.berkeley.edu... Don't know anything about it, only his recommendation ============================================================ >From: montnaro@sprite.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) 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) ============================================================ >From: wms@sunbar.mc.duke.edu 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. ================================================================ -Nicholas -------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME: Nicholas Tarnoff (Robot Systems Division) USMAIL:National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly NBS) Bldg. 220 / Rm B127 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 TELE: (301) 975-3464 ARPA: tarnoff@cme.nist.gov FAX: (301) 975-4091 UUCP: uunet!cme-durer!tarnoff --------------------------------------------------------------------