cis is an interactive UNIX script for using the on-line database for the
Current Index to Statistics. Among other things, it has facilities for:

	searching for records matching a given pattern;
	refining or expanding search results;
	previewing the results of a search at the terminal;
	saving and retrieving search results;
	displaying and printing search results in TeX format.

To start, type "cis" in response to your UNIX prompt, and when you see the 
"cis>" prompt, type "help" for an overview of what you can do with cis.  Each
cis command is fully documented on-line. The man page gives the command line
options.


Environment variables:
        CISTOP          : the top level directory of the CIS file structure
        CIS             : the directory where the CIS 'year' files reside
        CISFILES        : the list of CIS 'year' files
        CISTOOLS        : the directory containing UCCIS utilities
        BIBINPUTS       : the path Bibtex searches for .bib files
        TEXINPUTS       : the path (La)TeX searches for input files

Aliases:
        cis             : retrieve and display records from the CIS data base
        author          : sort CIS records by first author
        cis2bib         : convert CIS records to a BibTeX format
        cis2tex         : convert CIS records to a TeX format
        cisman          : man <the man pages on CIS utilities>
        cissort         : sort CIS records by collating options
        journal         : sort CIS records by journal/publisher abbreviations
        keys            : search for CIS records using an inverted index
        preview         : format CIS records for viewing at the terminal
        search          : search for CIS records matching a pattern
        texify          : create .tex and .dvi files from a .cis file
        weed            : delete selected CIS records

The commands cis,author, cis2bib, cis2tex, cissort, journal, keys, preview,
search, texify, and weed have man pages. To read the man page on, say, search,
give the command `cisman search'. To print out the man page, give the
command `cisman -t search'.
Last change: 11/28/95