[texhax] bibtex error message

[Bill Bobey]

Problem sorted, there was a script that was masking the bibtex binary.
Once removed everything worked fine.
Thanks for the help...



On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 01:28, BRØCKâQUÂNTIFIêR.ORG wrote:
> a better question is, what exactly is the name of your bibtex file.  and
> also, how do you call it in your .tex file?  are you running some sort of
> script to call bibtex?  and what does your bibtex file look like,
> especially the beginning?
> 
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> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karl Berry wrote:
> 
> >     $ bibtex report
> >     bibtex: Need exactly one file argument.
> >
> > This is utterly bizarre.
> >
> > Do you have an alias or shell script masking the bibtex binary?  Do
> > "type bibtex" (I guess you're using bash from the prompt) to make sure
> > you're invoking what you seem to be.  Or specify the
> > /full/path/to/bibtex report.  Finally, does bibtex --help print a help
> > message?
> >
> > Mysteriously yours,
> > karl
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