On Thu Aug 21 2003 at 13:31, Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Bill White wrote: > >> Is there an easy perl way to retrieve a MARC record for a given ISBN? > > Yes, using Z39.50! :-)
Newbieness continues... I've downloaded & installed Net::Z3950 but it looks like I can't get through the firewall here at work. Is there a way to use a proxy with this module? [Thu Aug 21 13:38:56 CDT 2003] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/billw/library/Z/Net-Z3950-0.35]$ [1088]$ make test make[1]: Entering directory `/local-billw2lx/billw/library/Z/Net-Z3950-0.35/yazwrap' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/local-billw2lx/billw/library/Z/Net-Z3950-0.35/yazwrap' PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" test.pl 1..16 ok 1 ok 2 ok 3 ok 4 ok 5 ok 6 Event: '?? Connection.pm:146' died and then $Event::DIED died with: Can't call method "attributes" without a package or object reference at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/Event.pm line 88. at blib/lib/Net/Z3950/Manager.pm line 239 make: *** [test_dynamic] Segmentation fault (core dumped) Thanks for your reply! bw -- Bill White Office: 5N-X30 Documentation Programmer Phone: 217-398-0700 x 234 Wolfram Research Fax: 217-398-0747 http://members.wri.com/billw Office hours: MTuTh 8a-4p WF 4a-12