[texhax] bibtex error message

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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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