Re: [MiKTeX] bibtex8.exe broken in MiKTeX 2.6?

[Philip G. R. <phi...@fa...>]

> > Hello everyone,
> > after installing MiKTeX 2.6 I noticed, that bibtex8 crashes 
> every time
> > while the "old" one of MiKTeX 2.5 still works fine. 
> "bibtex8 -v" gives
> > me exactly the same output for both:
> > This is 8-bit Big BibTeX version 0.99c
> > Implementation:  Microsoft(R) C/C++ for Win32
> > Release version: 3.71 (31 May 2005)
> >
> > The file sizes differ though (120KB -- 156 KB). I helped myself by
> > copying the "old" one to the new directory. Is bibtex8 
> really buggy in
> > MiKTeX 2.6? Does anyone have the same problem?
> 
> I experienced the same problem, but strangely trying the same
> woraround (copying the "old" MikTeX 2.5 into the new bin directory had
> no effect here.

This may not be the answer either of you wants, but it's fairly easy to
rebuild BibTeX8 from the source files (I use DJGPP for compiling) - I have
done it successfully to increase the Wolfgang defaults.

Cheers,  Phil