"Bernd Warken" wrote: > 1) `refer.man' cites under `FILES': > file.i Index files.
I did not investigate this much, but this should be the conventional output file name of the 'mkey' program from Heirloom/refer, which build an index of keys of a refer file. Another program, 'inv' make an inverted index from the mkey output and produce a set of files: file.ia, file.ib, file.ic, file.id. Then, the 'hunt' program search and deliver items from the inverted index. For all these programms, the documentation is "Application of inverted indexes in the Unix system" by M. E. Lesk. Based on this document, I have made three manual pages, which might be usefull: http://utroff.org/man/mkey.html http://utroff.org/man/inv.html http://utroff.org/man/hunt.html > 2) `refer.man' cites under `FILES': > /usr/dict/papers/Ind Default database. I personnaly use refer a lot. And even if I copy all my references in a central database, I find more usefull to create a new database for each paper. That said, it would be nice to share a refer database of the various troff (and maybe unix) papers, which are sometimes mentionned on man pages. > 4) The programs in Heirloom and refer history > - addbib I find easier to add papers manually. > - roffbib This one can be replaced easilly by refer -B file.ref | troff -ms > - sortbib Since refer is able to sort, I don't use this one a lot. Cheers, Pierre-Jean.
