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Re: [Refdb-users] Trouble configuring refDB

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Martin Hicks writes:
 > All of the manpages talk about regexps, as does the manual.  Which
 > backends support this?  Both MySQL and pgsql?
 > 

Yes, both MySQL and PostgreSQL support full-fledged Unix
regexps. SQLite is the only supported database engine that
doesn't. However, as Josef pointed out already, you may get by with
SQL regular expressions.

 > Ditto...If I do "getref" with no arguments no further valid getref
 > queries work.
 > 

RefDB is a unixish app, therefore many commands can read from
stdin. In fact, they automatically attempt to read from stdin if there
is no argument providing or pointing to the data. E.g. if you don't
specify a file with addref, refdbc will try to read the data from
stdin. Same with getref. If there is no query string, refdbc waits for
one on stdin. While refdbc appears to hang here, you can type in a
query string and terminate it with Ctrl-d Ctrl-d (there is still a bug
in the implementation as this appears to work only once per
session). This is in fact a feature, as you can store live queries in
text files and pipe them into refdbc to your heart's content.

regards,
Markus

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Re: [Refdb-users] Trouble configuring refDB

[Josef K. <jo...@ta...>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
>=20
> > return anything?  I'm not sure about the hang, but certainly SQLite
> > doesn't support regular expression in query strings, and so you need to
> > use SQL LIKE syntax, which is basically using '%' instead of '.*'
> > and '_' instead of '.'.
>=20
> Hmm...No regular expressions, eh?  Well this really isn't sister
> friendly (the person who is actually going to be using this).  I could
> probably teach her regexps but I don't know enough SQL foo to get by.
>=20

Actually there is not SQL foo to know.  Everything there is I've
described above.  Basically use an underscore (_) like a single
character wild card, and a percent (%) like a multicharacter wild card,
and that's your lot.  Regular expressions give you more flexibility, but
in my opinion are far less "sister friendly" than using a '%'.  So
you're probably good as you are.

> All of the manpages talk about regexps, as does the manual.  Which
> backends support this?  Both MySQL and pgsql?

I'm not sure of pgsql, but mysql does.  However it only does when
the client code uses the right query operator.  The SQL standard
only supports a pattern matching query (LIKE) with % and _ as special
characters, which is why SQLite does that.  To be honest use of
regular expressions in refdbc is a bit overkill for most queries.

> > I'm not sure about the hanging.  I had the same problem myself, until I
> > started using strings that worked.  For instance 'getref' on its own
> > hung, and I needed to press 'control C' to return control, but then the
> > database connection appeared to have broken, and I needed to close
> > refdbc and reload it again.
>=20
> Ditto...If I do "getref" with no arguments no further valid getref
> queries work.

Yes.  I'm sure that's a bug (or feature)!

Joe
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Re: [Refdb-users] Trouble configuring refDB

[Martin H. <mo...@bo...>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 06:16:47PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:39:40PM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
> >=20
> > Should actually return something.  And I can't get getref to work
> > either.  Using an example similar to that found in the Query Lanuage
> > section of the manual:
> >=20
> > refdbc: getref :AU:~^Tyson
> >=20
>=20
> Does=20
>     refdbc: getref :AU:~'tyson%'

Yes, this does work...

>=20
> return anything?  I'm not sure about the hang, but certainly SQLite
> doesn't support regular expression in query strings, and so you need to
> use SQL LIKE syntax, which is basically using '%' instead of '.*'
> and '_' instead of '.'.

Hmm...No regular expressions, eh?  Well this really isn't sister
friendly (the person who is actually going to be using this).  I could
probably teach her regexps but I don't know enough SQL foo to get by.

All of the manpages talk about regexps, as does the manual.  Which
backends support this?  Both MySQL and pgsql?

> I'm not sure about the hanging.  I had the same problem myself, until I
> started using strings that worked.  For instance 'getref' on its own
> hung, and I needed to press 'control C' to return control, but then the
> database connection appeared to have broken, and I needed to close
> refdbc and reload it again.

Ditto...If I do "getref" with no arguments no further valid getref
queries work.

mh

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Re: [Refdb-users] Trouble configuring refDB

[Josef K. <jo...@ta...>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:39:40PM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
>=20
> Should actually return something.  And I can't get getref to work
> either.  Using an example similar to that found in the Query Lanuage
> section of the manual:
>=20
> refdbc: getref :AU:~^Tyson
>=20

Does=20
    refdbc: getref :AU:~'tyson%'

return anything?  I'm not sure about the hang, but certainly SQLite
doesn't support regular expression in query strings, and so you need to
use SQL LIKE syntax, which is basically using '%' instead of '.*'
and '_' instead of '.'.

I'm not sure about the hanging.  I had the same problem myself, until I
started using strings that worked.  For instance 'getref' on its own
hung, and I needed to press 'control C' to return control, but then the
database connection appeared to have broken, and I needed to close
refdbc and reload it again.

Joe
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[Refdb-users] Trouble configuring refDB

[Martin H. <mo...@bo...>]

Hi,

My first attempt at installing refdb.  On Linux, using sqlite.  I've
managed to stick in two rif entries, and I can see that they were
entered because 'getau' with no arguments produces:

refdbc: getau
Cinnamon,Jerry
Tyson,Andy
999:2
refdbc: 


However, I don't seem to be able to figure out how to formulate a query
that will pull out all the information.  It would seem that

refdbc: getau '^Tyson'
999:0
refdbc:

Should actually return something.  And I can't get getref to work
either.  Using an example similar to that found in the Query Lanuage
section of the manual:

refdbc: getref :AU:~^Tyson

Just hangs and I see the following in the logs:

adding client 127.0.0.1 on fd 5
server waiting n_max_fd=5
try to read from client
serving client on fd 5 with protocol version 5
210-40-54-21
send pseudo-random string to client
parent removing client on fd 5
server waiting n_max_fd=4

Any ideas?
thanks
mh

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Re: [Refdb-users] Can't get refdbib to work

[Josef K. <jo...@ta...>]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:28:30PM +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Josef Karthauser writes:
>  > On another note, the version of refdbib I'm running appears to write
>  > duplicate entries to the bib file for things that are cited more than
>  > once.  Can this be prevented?
>  >=20
>=20
> The simplest way to avoid this is to run runbib instead of
> refdbib. runbib preprocesses the aux file to avoid duplicates. If you
> need to do this manually, use something like:
>=20
> sort file.aux | uniq | refdbib [options] > bib.bib
>=20

Yay.  Thanks for that.

Joe
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Re: [Refdb-users] Can't get refdbib to work

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Josef Karthauser writes:
 > On another note, the version of refdbib I'm running appears to write
 > duplicate entries to the bib file for things that are cited more than
 > once.  Can this be prevented?
 > 

The simplest way to avoid this is to run runbib instead of
refdbib. runbib preprocesses the aux file to avoid duplicates. If you
need to do this manually, use something like:

sort file.aux | uniq | refdbib [options] > bib.bib

regards,
Markus

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Re: [Refdb-users] Can't get refdbib to work

[Josef K. <jo...@ta...>]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:40:38PM +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Josef Karthauser writes:
>  > Sure.  See the attached.  It looks like it might be complaining about a
>  > missing style, however I couldn't find anything in the documentation
>  > which talked about setting up styles for bibtex output; it would also =
be
>  > useful for revdbib to report the reason for the error if this is the
>  > case.
>  >=20
>=20
> The current svn version now reports correctly if it can't find a style
> or if it can't load the selected style.
>=20

Brilliant.

On another note, the version of refdbib I'm running appears to write
duplicate entries to the bib file for things that are cited more than
once.  Can this be prevented?

Joe
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Re: [Refdb-users] Can't get refdbib to work

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Josef Karthauser writes:
 > Sure.  See the attached.  It looks like it might be complaining about a
 > missing style, however I couldn't find anything in the documentation
 > which talked about setting up styles for bibtex output; it would also be
 > useful for revdbib to report the reason for the error if this is the
 > case.
 > 

The current svn version now reports correctly if it can't find a style
or if it can't load the selected style.

regards,
Markus

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Re: [Refdb-users] Can't get refdbib to work

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Josef Karthauser <jo...@ta...> was heard to say:

> Ahha.  I didn't find the refdb-init script, but I found the style files
> in the distribution and used 'refdba' to load them manually.
>
> It now works using
>
>     % refdbib -d joe -S bibtex-abbrev -t bibtex tc.aux > tc.bib
>
> The installation I got was from the FreeBSD ports system.
>

There was no refdb-init script in 0.9.6. The FreeBSD port is a bit outdated,
unfortunately.

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Markus

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Re: [Refdb-users] Can't get refdbib to work

[Josef K. <jo...@ta...>]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:06:04PM +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Josef Karthauser <jo...@ta...> was heard to say:
>=20
> > Sure.  See the attached.  It looks like it might be complaining about a
> > missing style, however I couldn't find anything in the documentation
> > which talked about setting up styles for bibtex output;
>=20
> Looks like an omission from the docs. Even bibtex output requires one of =
two
> very simple styles: bibtex-full and bibtex-abbrev. You can use these to c=
ontrol
> whether the journal names are printed in full or if you prefer the abbrev=
iated
> names - something that is hard to achieve in bibtex alone. Add these styl=
es to
> your refdb database, and the error should go away.
>=20
> BTW did you set up RefDB manually? The refdb-init script should load all
> available styles to avoid this problem.

Ahha.  I didn't find the refdb-init script, but I found the style files
in the distribution and used 'refdba' to load them manually.

It now works using

    % refdbib -d joe -S bibtex-abbrev -t bibtex tc.aux > tc.bib

The installation I got was from the FreeBSD ports system.

> > it would also be
> > useful for revdbib to report the reason for the error if this is the
> > case.
> >
>=20
> There is certainly some wiggle room for improvements! I'll try to figure =
out
> something appropriate. Would you mind posting a feature request on the
> SourceForge RefDB site to remind me?
>=20

I'll do that in due course.

Thanks,
Joe

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Re: [Refdb-users] Can't get refdbib to work

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Josef Karthauser <jo...@ta...> was heard to say:

> Sure.  See the attached.  It looks like it might be complaining about a
> missing style, however I couldn't find anything in the documentation
> which talked about setting up styles for bibtex output;

Looks like an omission from the docs. Even bibtex output requires one of two
very simple styles: bibtex-full and bibtex-abbrev. You can use these to control
whether the journal names are printed in full or if you prefer the abbreviated
names - something that is hard to achieve in bibtex alone. Add these styles to
your refdb database, and the error should go away.

BTW did you set up RefDB manually? The refdb-init script should load all
available styles to avoid this problem.

> it would also be
> useful for revdbib to report the reason for the error if this is the
> case.
>

There is certainly some wiggle room for improvements! I'll try to figure out
something appropriate. Would you mind posting a feature request on the
SourceForge RefDB site to remind me?

regards,
Markus

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Re: [Refdb-users] Can't get refdbib to work

[Josef K. <jo...@ta...>]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:10:34AM +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Josef Karthauser <jo...@ta...> was heard to say:
> 
> > As you can see, the .aux file contains a single citation
> > 'Overduin1998pn', which it appears to retrieve ok '1 retrieved', but
> > then it also says '1 failed' and no output is produced.
> 
> Could you please run the application server refdbd with a log level of 7 and
> send me the log output of the getbib command? E.g. stop the server using
> "refdbctl stop", then run refdbd -s -e 2 -l 7 -L /home/joe/getbib.log, run
> refdbib in a separate terminal, and kill refdbd with Ctrl-C when done.
> 

Sure.  See the attached.  It looks like it might be complaining about a
missing style, however I couldn't find anything in the documentation
which talked about setting up styles for bibtex output; it would also be
useful for revdbib to report the reason for the error if this is the
case.

> > BTW, how do I do a query in refdbc on the citation key?  I don't appear
> > to be able to do:
> >
> >     refdbc: getref :ID:~'Overduin1998pn'
> 
> RefDB treats numerical ID values and citation keys separately, although they
> have to share the same field (ID  - ) in RIS datasets. :ID: looks for a
> numerical ID, whereas :CK: looks for a citation key. The following command
> should work:
> 
>   refdbc: getref :CK:=Overduin1998pn
> 

Brilliant, I was wondering - I didn't find this in the documentation
anywhere.

Joe
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Re: [Refdb-users] Can't get refdbib to work

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Josef Karthauser <jo...@ta...> was heard to say:

> As you can see, the .aux file contains a single citation
> 'Overduin1998pn', which it appears to retrieve ok '1 retrieved', but
> then it also says '1 failed' and no output is produced.

Could you please run the application server refdbd with a log level of 7 and
send me the log output of the getbib command? E.g. stop the server using
"refdbctl stop", then run refdbd -s -e 2 -l 7 -L /home/joe/getbib.log, run
refdbib in a separate terminal, and kill refdbd with Ctrl-C when done.

> BTW, how do I do a query in refdbc on the citation key?  I don't appear
> to be able to do:
>
>     refdbc: getref :ID:~'Overduin1998pn'
>

RefDB treats numerical ID values and citation keys separately, although they
have to share the same field (ID  - ) in RIS datasets. :ID: looks for a
numerical ID, whereas :CK: looks for a citation key. The following command
should work:

  refdbc: getref :CK:=Overduin1998pn

regards,
Markus


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[Refdb-users] Can't get refdbib to work

[Josef K. <jo...@ta...>]

Hi, I wonder.  Can someone help me?

I can't get refdbib to function properly.  I'm trying to get it to
export a bibtex file for a latex document, but it returns an error and
no output.

Here's the command I'm running:

    % refdbib -d joe -S name -m -l 7 -t bibtex -e 0 tc.aux > foo=20
    Please enter your password:=20
    refdbib started
    gettexbib  -u joe -d joe -s name 18
    Overduin1998pn
    999:1 retrieved:1 failed
    refdbib finished
    % cat foo

    %=20

As you can see, the .aux file contains a single citation
'Overduin1998pn', which it appears to retrieve ok '1 retrieved', but
then it also says '1 failed' and no output is produced.

As you can see, this entry is in the database:

    TY  - JOUR
    ID  - Overduin1998pn
    AU  - Overduin,J.M.
    AU  - Wesson,P.S.
    TI  - Kaluza-Klein Gravity
    JF  - Physics Reports
    JO  - Phys.Rept.
    KW  - Cosmology
    KW  - KaluzaKlein
    KW  - ReviewPaper
    VL  - 283
    SP  - 303
    EP  - 378
    N2  - Read the cosmology section especially, for the thesis.
    RP  - NOT IN FILE
    IS  - 5-6
    UR  - http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9805018
    N1  - We review higher-dimensional unified theories from the general re=
lativity, rather than the particle physics side. Three distinct approaches =
to the subject are identified and contrasted: compactified, projective and =
noncompactified. We discuss the cosmological and astrophysical implications=
 of extra dimensions, and conclude that none of the three approaches can be=
 ruled out on observational grounds at the present time.
    PY  - 1997/April//
    ER  -=20
    999:1 retrieved:0 failed
    refdbc:=20

What's going wrong?

BTW, how do I do a query in refdbc on the citation key?  I don't appear
to be able to do:

    refdbc: getref :ID:~'Overduin1998pn'

Joe
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Re: [Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-0.9.8-1 available

[<ste...@jo...>]

Markus Hoenicka a =E9crit :
> Hi all,
>=20
> 0.9.8 unfortunately contained a few bugs which require a bugfix
> release. 0.9.8-1 does not contain any new features. See below for a
> description of the fixed bugs. The new release was built from the
> subversion revision 273. The bugfixes also required a new release of
> the perlclient module, now at version 1.16. Updated Cygwin binaries
> will be released shortly.
>=20
> The new releases can be grabbed here:
>=20
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D26091
>=20


RPMs available for Mandriva 2007.0 at:
http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/20=
07.0/i586/media/contrib/testing/

Cheers,

St=E9phane


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[Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-0.9.8-1 Cygwin binaries available

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi all,

I've uploaded updated Cygwin binaries which were built from the recently
announced 0.9.8-1 bugfix release. The package is available here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26091

Please remember that this is not a real Cygwin package. It is a simple archive
that you should extract in / (the root directory of your Cygwin installation).
All files will then drop into the /usr/local hierarchy.

regards,
Markus

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[Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-0.9.8-1 available

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi all,

0.9.8 unfortunately contained a few bugs which require a bugfix
release. 0.9.8-1 does not contain any new features. See below for a
description of the fixed bugs. The new release was built from the
subversion revision 273. The bugfixes also required a new release of
the perlclient module, now at version 1.16. Updated Cygwin binaries
will be released shortly.

The new releases can be grabbed here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/showfiles.php?group_id=26091

regards,
Markus

Bugfixes:

- the implementation of the addref/updateref/checkref client/server
  dialog was incorrect. The bug did not cause a loss of data under any
  circumstances. In fact, the bug was silent on most systems. However,
  the bug showed up randomly on Cygwin. The bug in the client/server
  dialog was *after* all data were added to the database, but *before*
  the result summary was transmitted to the client. Due to the bug
  refdbc would in some cases indicate an error when in fact the command
  had been processed successfully.

- the checkref command suffered from a possible segfault which was
  fixed

- getbib returned an error if one of the references did not contain
  any titles. This is now handled more gracefully.

- while at it, several memory leaks were plugged.



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[Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-0.9.8 cygwin binaries available

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

I've uploaded a binary package of RefDB-0.9.8 for Windows/Cygwin:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26091&package_id=17592

As with all binary Cygwin releases before, this is not a real Cygwin package. It
is a simple tar.gz archive which you should extract in /. The binaries,
documentation, man pages, and shared files will then end up in /usr/local.
Inquiries to become a Cygwin package maintainer to do a real Cygwin package
will be generously considered :-)

Let me know if you encounter any problems.

regards,
Markus

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[Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-elisp 1.3 available

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

refdb-elisp is a minor mode for Emacs which implements a graphical interface and
an integrated editing environment for RefDB. I've uploaded refdb-elisp 1.3 last
night. There are no new features in the tool itself, but it provides support
for the new checkref command and it also supports the changed command-line
options in some of the RefDB clients. If you upgraded RefDB to 0.9.8 or plan to
do so, please grab the new version of refdb-elisp here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26091&package_id=169552

regards,
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[Refdb-users] ANN: RefDB svn Debian repository updated to revision 261

[David N. <dav...@sw...>]

The Debian svn repository has been updated so that all packages now are 
at revision 261.

Regards,
David.

[Refdb-users] ANN: RefDB (pre-)release Debian repository updated to 0.9.8

[David N. <dav...@sw...>]

The Debian (pre-)release repository has been updated so that all 
packages now are version 0.9.8.

Regards,
David.

Re: [Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-0.9.8 available

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

:-( I should know by now! thanks for the correction
Markus


David Nebauer <dav...@sw...> was heard to say:

> Hi Markus,
>
> > after another 6 months of work, RefDB 0.9.8 has been released into the
> > wild today. Please grab your copy right here:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/showfiles.php?group_id=26091
>
> That link should use 'project' instead of 'projects':
>
> 	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26091
>
> Regards,
> David.
>
>


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Re: [Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-0.9.8 available

[David N. <dav...@sw...>]

Hi Markus,

> after another 6 months of work, RefDB 0.9.8 has been released into the
> wild today. Please grab your copy right here:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/showfiles.php?group_id=26091

That link should use 'project' instead of 'projects':

	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26091

Regards,
David.

[Refdb-users] ANN: refdb-0.9.8 available

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

I've just noticed that yesterday's announcement mentioned the checkref
command twice, but it did not explain it anywhere. This is quite funny
as probably the largest part of my coding time since 0.9.7 went into
this feature. So for all who missed earlier prerelease announcement,
this is what the checkref command is all about:

The checkref command adds your RIS or risx data to your database much
like addref does. However, the data end up in temporary tables and are
not added permanently. Instead, refdbd uses the temporary data to
compare the new references against the ones in the database. This will
help you identify duplicate entries as well as synonyms or spelling
variants of keywords, author names, and periodicals. If you use the
xhtml output of the checkref command, you'll even be able to see what
the imported data is going to look like.

I'm sorry for that omission.

regards,
Markus

Markus Hoenicka writes:
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > after another 6 months of work, RefDB 0.9.8 has been released into the
 > wild today. Please grab your copy right here:
 > 

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