-------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 30, 2005 Version 1.00 a r X i v B i b R e a d m e F i l e Copyright(c) 2005-2006, John Forkosh Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- by: John Forkosh john@forkosh.com www.forkosh.com This file is part of arXivBib, which is free software. You may redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later, as published by the Free Software Foundation. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html ArXivBib is discussed and illustrated online at its homepage http://www.forkosh.com/arxivbib.html which is identical to arxivbib.html in your arxivbib.zip distribution file. I. QUICK START ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Installation: Download http://www.forkosh.com/arxivbib.zip and then type unzip arxivbib.zip cc arxivbib.c -o arxivbib You're all done. Usage: Prepare inputfile in the form... quant-ph/9812037 \\ cite=Aha:99b \\ entry=article math.OA/0404553 \\ cite=Kribs:04 etc Then enter the command nohup ./arxivbib < inputfile > outputfile & and outputfile will be in the form... @article{Aha:99b, author = "Dorit Aharonov", month = "December", title = "Quantum Computation", year = 1998, eprint = "quant-ph/9812037" } @etc II. INTRODUCTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arXivBib, licensed under the gpl, retrieves abstract pages from arXiv.org and reformats them as BibTeX entries. It saves lots of typing if you have many such references to cite, but isn't worth the trouble if you only have a few. III. REVISION HISTORY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11/30/05 J.Forkosh version 1.00 (alpha) released IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I hope you find arXivBib useful. If so, a contribution to your country's TeX Users Group, or to the GNU project, is suggested. ========================= END-OF-FILE README ===========================