Paul, > FWIW, I'm working on a Perl module that makes bib-1 searching via > Z39.50 a bit simpler: > > use Zoose; > $z = Zoose->new( > 'host' => $host, > 'port' => $port, > ... > ); > $rs = $z->search('isbn' => $isbn); > foreach my $i (1..$rs->count) { > $book = $rs->match($i); > print $book->title_proper, "\n"; > ... other MARC::Record operations here ... > }
Have you seen the perl binding of Zoom; an easy to use perl interface to z39.50: http://zoom.z3950.org/bind/perl/index.html Regards, Ashley. -- Ashley Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] COPAC: A public bibliographic database from MIMAS, funded by JISC http://copac.ac.uk/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED]