[comp.text.tex] Anybody got BibTeX running ?

sharp@usceast.UUCP (Harry Sharp) (02/26/90)

Greetings!

I was just hoping there was a group for TeX, and lo and behold, I found
one!  Must be living right, eh?

Does anyone have bibTeX running?  I am trying to use bibTeX under LaTeX
to write my master's thesis, and the only thing I get is, 'Bus error - core
dumped' each time I run it.  I have searched the available documentation
that came with the TeX distribution, but it doesn't seem to be real helpful.

I surmise that the problem may lie in the fact that I do not know how to
tell LaTeX the bib style file I want to use.  The docs again do not
reveal any information about this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Harrison
sharp@cs.scarolina.edu

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mojo@reed.bitnet (a cadaverous olive) (02/26/90)

What hardware & OS are you using?  We have BibTeX running nicely on a variety
of Unix boxes here...

As far as telling it what bibliography style to use, you want
\bibliographystyle{style}
immediately after the \begin{document} command.  plain is the conventional
style; unsrt sorts entries by first citation rather than by author's name;
there are a batch of others.

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