fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) (03/17/91)
Hi, I am using bibtex 0.99c ( C-version on a Sun Sparc station ). It works fine, but it doesn't locate database files which aren't given with an explicit path name. I tried to setenv TEXBIB or setenv TEXBIB: as described in btxdoc.tex to the appropriate directory name, but bibtex doesn't seem to care. Any help? Thanks Fritz -- -- Fritz Zaucker Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University New York Palisades, NY 10964 (914) 359-2900 x703 EMAIL: fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu
moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) (03/18/91)
Well, I have BiBTeX 0.99c on a DECStation, and my man page says it uses TEXINPUTS not TEXBIB as the environment variable for finding things. It is in fact a search path, and it works fine for me. -- J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-4206, 545-1249 (fax); Moss@cs.umass.edu
munson@acacia.Berkeley.EDU (Ethan V. Munson) (03/22/91)
The current version of BibTeX in the Unix TeX distribution uses the BIBINPUTS environment variable to get the search path for .bib files. I can't find a manual page for bibtex anywhere in the distribution tree. It is only recently that the distributed code for BibTeX used a separate path from TEXINPUTS for the .bib files. I have no idea why earlier versions used TEXINPUTS for both style and database files. I also have no idea why it was decided to use an environment variable with a different name than the one chosen by Patashnik. Ethan Munson