BibTool Manual Introduction Getting BibTool, Hot News, and Bug Reports

Getting BibTool, Hot News, and Bug Reports

Usually BibTool can be found on the CTAN or one of its mirrors. Thus you can get BibTool via ftp or extract it from a CDROM containing a dump of the CTAN. The CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) consists of the following major sites (and many mirrors):

• ftp.dante.de (Germany)
• ftp.tex.ac.uk (UK)
• ctan.tug.org (USA)

• tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool

If you encounter problems installing or using BibTool you can send me a bug report to my email address gerd.neugebauer@sdm.de (or gerd.neugebauer@gmx.de). Please include the following information into a bug report:

• The version of BibTool you are using.
• Your hardware specification and operating system version.
• The C compiler you are using and its version. (Only for compilation and installation problems)
• The resource file you are using. Try to reduce it to the absolute minimum necessary for demonstrating the problem.
• A small BibTeX file showing the problem.
• The command line options of an invocation of BibTool making the problem appear.
• A short justification why you think that the behavior is an error.

I have had the experience that compiling this information has helped me find my own problems in using software. Thus I could fix several problems before sending a bug report.

On the other side I have unfortunately also had the experience that I have got complains about problems in my software. After several questions it turned out that the program had not been used correctly.

Oh, sure. There have been bugs and I suppose there are still some bugs in BibTool. I am grateful for each hint which helps me in eliminating these bugs.

BibTool Manual Introduction Getting BibTool, Hot News, and Bug Reports