These are just simple Bourne Shell scripts for compiling and converting LaTeX-related files and removing files created by LaTeX-related software. Those compile*-scripts are not very good for those LaTeX-docs needing bibtex and/or more than than one (pdf)latex-run. So, use some more specialized software for that purpose or find or create some good Makefile: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=make CTAN: info/texmalli/ http://rubber.sourceforge.net/ http://gforge.inria.fr/projects/latex-utils/ http://bouncingchairs.net/oss/latex.html http://code.google.com/p/latex-makefile/ http://latex-mk.sourceforge.net/ http://www.arakhne.org/autolatex/index.html CTAN: /support/autolatex Non-functional links (use web.archive.org): http://www.light.utoronto.ca/stok/linux.html http://web.archive.org/web/20040219154817/http://www.light.utoronto.ca/stok/linux.html http://web.archive.org/web/20031211201724/http://www.light.utoronto.ca/stok/Makefile