In a message dated 11/6/2008 11:20:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> If you use the latest address (Jun 30, 2001), you will find viewable > articles and viewable Perl4Lib archive messages from Jul 29, 1999 to Jul > 30, 2000. (Based on a very cursory examination, these include the > seemingly earliest list messages relating to MARC.pm and its > development.) The earliest one in my records appears to be 13 August, 1999 and the text refers to "a couple weeks ago" - so Jul 29, 1999 may indeed be the earliest. I had worked on a conversion project in Clinton, WI before that which used perl to parse MAKRBRKR output but I don't thing any of that was incorporated into MARC.pm itself. But some of the included examples implemented similar tasks via MARC.pm. It looks like I also have a lot of developer-developer correspondence that did not go to the full list. I don't know if you woiuld want any of that. And there is an interesting discussion with the CPAN maintainers since this was the first module submitted by a mailing list rather than by an individual. It appears version 0.81 was the first CPAN upload. You can also find downloadable files of the earliest> > versions of MARC.pm available there via archived CPAN links. (I checked > the current CPAN site, and the oldest--that is, less than 1.0--are not > there; but they *are* available through the IA Perl4Lib links to the > IA-archived CPAN site.) The link to the IA-archived MARC.pm SourceForge > site also has some of the early/experimental versions (but not the > earliest, as found on IA CPAN) of the software that you're seeking. > > Hope this gives you some leads to the early history that you're > documenting! > > Harvey > I see references to lots of versions I no longer have on the disk of this old machine. My recollection is that I tarred up chunks of the disk and dumped it to CDs so I could reclaim some of the disk for another project. I've probably got the CDs somewhere (in an unopened box with several hundred others that has not been opened since 2002 when I moved. I used to be self-employed so I had lots of "retain for 7 years in case the IRS asks" records (they never did - so I didn't sort the contents of the box). -bill ************** AOL Search: Your one stop for directions, recipes and all other Holiday needs. Search Now. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212792382x1200798498/aol?redir=http://searchblog.aol.com/2008/11/04/happy-holidays -from-aol-search/?ncid=emlcntussear00000001)
