[comp.sys.sun] WANTED: public domain biblio. DB system

tarnoff@cme.nbs.gov (Nicholas Tarnoff) (05/26/89)

I am looking for a simple public domain bibliographic database system
to run on our Suns. I tried Refer but had too many problems with it.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Please e-mail me your replies and I will post a summary.
Thanks.

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wyle@inf.ethz.ch (06/16/89)

In article <3544@kalliope.rice.edu> 
tarnoff@cme.nbs.gov (Nicholas Tarnoff) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 7, message 4 of 15
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>I tried Refer but had too many problems with it.

What problems?  Please tell us in your summary.

>I would appreciate any suggestions.

1.  Use a commercial db package (eg Oracle) and roll your own.
2.  Get SMART (from Chris Buckly and G. Salton at Cornell) not Don
    Adams and Mel Brooks ;-)
3.  Write your own indxbib using /usr/lib/refer/mkey and inv.

>Please e-mail me your replies and I will post a summary.

Please don't forget the summary.

-Mitch
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