February 1985 1. We have adapted the bib and refer programs, which are standard facilities supported by UNIX operating systems, to provide an automated bibliographic service at Kent.
Documentation is available.
The bibliography contains some 1,100 items used for teaching and research, and is expanding fairly rapidly. The essence is that full bibliographic details are stored in a UNIX file - at Kent it is called makhzan. These are permanent records, and they can be manipulated to provide different kinds of output. In reading lists for first year students, for example, we include the library class-mark, but for an article in a journal that information is omitted. The programs allow you to stipulate the format in which citations are made, in texts which are then processed using nroff or troff programs.