Re: Early Confusion with MARC::Record

2003-11-13 Thread Morbus Iff
And moving further on, Example 3 starts talking about "warnings", and follows up with "strict_off". This confused me, as I tried to associate their meaning with what I know about Perl's own warning and strict pragma's: * warnings are shown, but processing attempts to continue. * when strict is

Early Confusion with MARC::Record

2003-11-13 Thread Morbus Iff
Me again . I've started going through the ::Tutorial, with an eye to adding, updating, and revising things. So far: * corrected some spelling and punctuation errors. * replaced "listserv" with "mailing list". Listserv is a copyrighted product name, and I've been C&D'd before. * Added MARC

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Morbus Iff
>I hear you. Right now the closest thing we have to the iMDB is Z39.50. Is the LC server the "definitive" Z39.50 database? If I suck down a record from there, send it to my database, add more information, etc., etc., how does it get back to the LC? Does it? Would the way I'd contribute be to simpl

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Ed Summers
Morbus: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:57:03AM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: > * which MARC output format does MARC::Record create? In various >of the demo oss4lib softwares I've seen, there's almost always >a "show as MARC" option, but I always get a cutesy rendered >HTML table, and not the a

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Morbus Iff
>You didn't investigate enough. >* in systemprefs, acquisition=normal means what you say. >acquisition=simple means => no acquisition, direct cataloguing. Thanks for the info - I'll take another look. -- Morbus Iff ( i put the demon back in codemonkey ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread paul POULAIN
Morbus Iff wrote: >For Koha, you can always reach "add book" (Koha >> login >> Catalogue >> >Add biblio >> add empty biblio) once.Then create a bookmark on the address. >Then, with the bookmark, you can reach MARC editor in 1 clic. Maybe I didn't investigate too clearly - my understanding was th

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Morbus Iff
>For Koha, you can always reach "add book" (Koha >> login >> Catalogue >> >Add biblio >> add empty biblio) once.Then create a bookmark on the address. >Then, with the bookmark, you can reach MARC editor in 1 clic. Maybe I didn't investigate too clearly - my understanding was that before I could ad

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Morbus Iff
>to discuss the construction of a MARC processing library for Perl. But it >has always been the hope that it would evolve to support all sorts of >projects, discussions, and free wheeling musings. It has done this to some Fair enough. My biggest questions so far seem to be: * one of the things I'

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Brad Baxter
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, paul POULAIN wrote: > Brad Baxter wrote: > > >On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, paul POULAIN wrote: > >>You will say : "hay, but i still need to login. And i don't need login". > >> > >>I'll answer => ok, go to : Koha >> Parameters >> System preferences >> > >>insecure >> set to "1" (or "y

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread paul POULAIN
Brad Baxter wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, paul POULAIN wrote: You will say : "hay, but i still need to login. And i don't need login". I'll answer => ok, go to : Koha >> Parameters >> System preferences >> insecure >> set to "1" (or "yes", not sure), and it's done => no more auth check :-) And

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Brad Baxter
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, paul POULAIN wrote: > You will say : "hay, but i still need to login. And i don't need login". > > I'll answer => ok, go to : Koha >> Parameters >> System preferences >> > insecure >> set to "1" (or "yes", not sure), > and it's done => no more auth check :-) > > And you have a

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Aaron Brenner
Morbus Iff wrote: Am I missing the magical product? The closest I've seen is phpMyLibrary, but that still doesn't satisfy all my "needs" [2]. Another place to check out, if you haven't already, is the Open Source Systems for Libraries site [1]. I'm not sure the magical product is listed t

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread paul POULAIN
Ed Summers wrote: Welcome Morbus: * they cater to library-installations only (as they should, but Koha, for instance, forces me through about five to twelve screens before I can add one item. I don't care about ordering, acquisitions, or budgeting - I just want a

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread Ed Summers
Welcome Morbus: > * I am not a trained librarian. Is there a friendly place for > self-taught, enthused users to ask questions concerning the various > technologies? I understand that this list is _perl_ for > _librarians_, and innocent questions about MARC and "how best > to cat

Re: Caution Newb Toes The Dirt...

2003-11-13 Thread E. Naeher
> * I am not a trained librarian. Is there a friendly place for > self-taught, enthused users to ask questions concerning the various > technologies? I understand that this list is _perl_ for > _librarians_, and innocent questions about MARC and "how best > to catalog $this" proba