[TUHS] Re: Major update in unix.bib

[steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>]

Total entries: 4297

At version 4.68, data from a recently
discovered Bell Laboratories document, 
UNIX Bibliography [Scheiderman:1980:UB] have been
merged into this file.

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Massive effort, so impressive.
Plus the SQLite database. Nice touch.

Matt G’s constant flow of new docs is pushing the boundaries
of ‘known docs’ back.

> On 9 Jun 2023, at 01:53, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to Unix document recovery work by some TUHS list members that
> has been recently added to the archives at minnie.tuhs.org, a large
> Bell Labs bibliography about Unix has been uncovered and is now
> available online.  I have spent time this week converting the 59-page
> PDF file to a somewhat searchable OCR'ed PDF, and from a text
> conversion of that file, to relatively clean BibTeX entries in
> 
> 	https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/unix.bib
> 
> [change .bib to .html for similar view with hypertext links].
> 
> The bibliography recorded in entry Scheiderman:1980:UB, with a long
> remark field, has 457 entries, from the years 1972 to 1980, but due to
> splitting into subject-specific sections, there are some duplications:
> 448 remain after data merger.
> 
> Much work remains to be done, including locating electronic copies of
> those reports, correcting truncated data, and getting suitable URLs
> retrofitted into their BibTeX entries. 

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