Bug#137823: bibtex fails with : Sorry---you've exceeded BibTeX's buffer size 5000

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:52:55AM +0100, Sven wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:39:18AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > From: Sven <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
> > Subject: Bug#137823: bibtex fails with : Sorry---you've exceeded BibTeX's buffer size 5000
> > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:36:36 +0100
> > 
> > > Sorry---you've exceeded BibTeX's buffer size 5000
> > > make: *** [article.bbl] Segmentation fault
> > > make: *** Deleting file `article.bbl'
> > 
> > > Also i did look into the /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf, but did not find
> > > anything which seems to affect the bibtex buffer size.
> > 
> > I am not sure but to change buf_size = 50000 of
> 
> I tried buf_size = 500000, but without success, i will try again and report to
> you about it<

Just a quick check; your BibTeX input file (the .bib file) was not
created on a Macintosh by any chance?  If you run the following
command on your .bib file before you try running BibTeX again, do
things improve?

perl -i -pe 'tr/\r/\n/' refs.bib

where you replace refs.bib with the name of your actual BibTeX file.

   Julian

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