[comp.sys.atari.st.tech] ST BibTeX v0.99c 'Features'

latornel@unixg.ubc.ca (Doug Latornell) (03/29/91)

The version of BibTeX (0.99c, I think) that I got from
dsrgsun.ces.CWRU.edu about a year ago with the rest of the TeX stuff
that I use has a couple of (for me) annoying 'features':
	1) The environment variables TEXBIB and TEXINPUTS may only be
	   set to a single path, not a series of paths separated by ;s.
	2) BibTeX chakes when it finds a path with /s as separators
	   (rather than \s) in a .aux file.
Both of these make this version of BibTeX slightly incompatible with
the ST port of TeX v2.9.  I've worked around them by some creative
script writing in Gulam but I'd like to do better.

Hence, can anyone direct me to a version of BibTeX for the ST that
overcomes the above limitations?  I've checked the version at
atari.archive and it appears to suffer from the same problems.  If
such a beast doesn't exist, can anyone point me in the direction of
the sources so that I can fix them myself (you'd think I had time on
my hands or something... :-).  I know I could start over again from
the MS-DOS Turbo C sources that Jeffery Long (who no longer seems to
exist at the email address given in his docs) used for the port to the
ST but that would definitely be reinventing the wheel (or at least
retreading the tire...)
--
Doug Latornell
CAM/Robotics Lab --- Mech. Eng. Dept.	 <latornell@mech.ubc.ca> <-- preferred
University of British Columbia		 <latornel@unixg.ubc.ca>
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada