Compilation of the executables is based on the GNU autotools: autoreconf -i ./configure # optionally with --prefix=....installation directory make install Alternatively the gcc compiler and/or lex compilers can be used, in the minimalistic cases without optimization similar to: cc -o EndNote2bib EndNote2bib.c cc -o dosToTex dosToTex.c cc -o r2bib r2bib.c c++ -o EndNoteTag EndNoteTag.cxx In particular, some tuning of the behavior of ansel2uni(1) is only supported by running lex(1) and cc(1) separately, using preprocessor options for the later. The man(1) pages installed above may require an update of the database in the MANPATH: echo $MANPATH mandb man Otherwise they can be looked at in the style of nroff(1) through a pager, nroff -man EndNote2bib.1 | more nroff -man EndNoteTag.1 | more nroff -man risDateAdj.1 | more nroff -man wileyEndNoteFilt.1 | more nroff -man ansel2uni.1 | more nroff -man dosToTex.1 | more nroff -man r2bib.1 | more