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+=============================================================================
+REFERENCES Bibliographic Software Version 4.3d
+ (c) Volker Kiefel, 1995-2007
+=============================================================================
+Summary: REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of scientific
+manuscripts and for management of bibliographic data of ARTICLES IN JOURNALS,
+of BOOKS, of CHAPTERS IN BOOKS and other document types including notes and
+electronic documents. REFERENCES supports LaTeX including BibTeX.
+Bibliographic records in MEDLINE format are easily imported. Retrieval of
+references is possible by keywords, authors' or editors' names, date of
+publication, title of article, book title, journal name and other data fields.
+Lists of references and formatted citations in the text can be compiled in any
+bibliographic style required by the publishers of scientific journals.
+REFERENCES is provided with a text based console interface compiled for
+win32-systems and as Linux port. An external text editor is required for
+editing data.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Installation:
+
+This complete distribution of REFERENCES v4.3d comprises the files
+(corresponding .zip and .exe-files have the same contents):
+
+ r43d.zip OR r43d.exe (win32 binary files, sample database, documentation)
+ refs-4.3d-src.tar.gz (source code: Linux, win32)
+ refs-4.3d-rt.tar.gz (Linux "runtime" files: sample database, documentation)
+
+Please read the instructions for installation in `refsdok.pdf' which can be
+found in r43d.zip, r43d.exe or refs-4.3d-rt.tar.gz. On win32 systems, create
+the directory c:\refs43 and extract r43d.exe or r43d.zip into this directory.
+Version history may be found in `history.txt', for license issues, please read
+COPYING.
+
+References for win32 includes a win32 implementation of AWK (Kernighan's awk
+dated 04.05.2007). Source code for AWK may be found on Brian Kernighan's
+website http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/index.html
+=============================================================================
+Detailed description:
+
+REFERENCES is bibliographic software designed to generate lists of
+bibliographic references and citations in scientific manuscripts in any format
+(defined by bibliographic styles) required by scientific journals.
+Bibliographic styles can be created by the user. REFERENCES can also be used
+as a database to process information on bibliographic data: references may be
+searched according to keywords, name(s) of authors or editors, title, year of
+publication and other items. The current version supports document types:
+
+(1) articles in journals/periodicals with personal/institutional author(s),
+(2) complete books with personal/institutional editor(s),
+(3) articles or chapters in books,
+(4) various document types with personal or institutional author(s).
+
+REFERENCES is primarily designed to support writing manuscripts with
+LaTeX/BibTeX (among other features, bibliographic data may be exported in
+BibTeX format), it also supports OpenOffice.org/StarOffice writer and other
+text processors.
+
+REFERENCES is written in C as console application. Data are manipulated in a
+`binary' database format. To make transfer easy, all data and bibliographic
+styles can be exported into a documented text format (and -- if necessary --
+checked by hand for consistency). REFERENCES is used interactively with menus
+at a command prompt. For input and editing data, a text editor is required
+(not included in the distribution). An implementation of awk is required for
+some scripts included with the win32 REFERENCES distribution (for Linux it is
+assumed that [g]awk is provided with the system).
+
+REFERENCES is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL
+PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2 (FSF).
+=============================================================================
+Short description:
+
+Bibliographic software supporting LaTeX/BibTeX
+=============================================================================
+Announcement of v4.3d:
+
+REFERENCES is bibliographic software for authors of scientific manuscripts and
+for management of bibliographic data.
+
+Updated and new bibliographic and macro format definitions are made available
+on the project homepage:
+
+ http://references.sourceforge.net
+
+Beginning with v4.3, References is provided as Linux program and a win32
+application. Encoding of the internal data representation and of .arr, .fd
+and text files has been changed. Less can now be uses for reading text files.
+
+Volker Kiefel
+August 2007
+=============================================================================