NAME

       bibtex8 - 8-bit Big BibTeX version 0.99c

SYNOPSIS

       bibtex8 [options] aux-file

DESCRIPTION

       8-bit  BibTeX  is an enhanced, portable C version of BibTeX 0.99.  It has been enhanced in
       these areas:

       - conversion to "big" (32-bit) capacity

       - capacity selectable at run time

       - flexible support for non-English languages using 8-bit character sets

       - well matched to LateX2e and its "inputenc" package

       Oren Patashnik, the creator of BibTeX, is working on a new  BibTeX  1.0  that  will  be  a
       modern  implementation supporting large capacities and non-English languages (see TUGboat,
       pages 269--274, volume 15, number 3, September 1994).  He is content for this  version  to
       be  released,  but  hopes  that  people  will  eventually migrate to BibTeX 1.0 when it is
       released.  Its release date is uncertain at the moment.

OPTIONS

       -?  --help
              display this help text

       -7  --traditional
              operate in the original 7-bit mode

       -8  --8bit
              force 8-bit mode, no CS file used

       -c  --csfile FILE
              read FILE as the BibTeX character set and sort definition file

       -d  --debug TYPE
              report debugging information.  TYPE is one or more of  all,  csf,  io,  mem,  misc,
              search.

       -s  --statistics
              report internal statistics

       -t  --trace
              report execution tracing

       -v  --version
              report BibTeX version

       -B  --big
              set large BibTeX capacity

       -H  --huge
              set huge BibTeX capacity

       -W  --wolfgang
              set really huge BibTeX capacity for Wolfgang

       -M  --min_crossrefs ##
              set min_crossrefs to ##

       --mcites ##
              allow ## \cites in the .aux files

       --mentints ##
              allow ## integer entries in the .bib databases

       --mentstrs ##
              allow ## string entries in the .bib databases

       --mfields ##
              allow ## fields in the .bib databases

       --mpool ##
              set the string pool to ## bytes

       --mstrings ##
              allow ## unique strings

       --mwizfuns ##
              allow ## wizard functions

AUTHORS

       bibtex8  was written by Niel Kempson <kempson@snowyowl.co.uk> and Alejandro Aguilar-Sierra
       <asierra@servidor.unam.mx>. This manpage was written by Norbert  Preining  for  Debian/GNU
       Linux and may be used, modified and/or distributed freely by anyone.