Re: Early Confusion with MARC::Record + more confusion

2003-11-18 Thread Chuck Bearden
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:25:41AM -0600, Ed Summers wrote: > > 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

Re: Early Confusion with MARC::Record + more confusion

2003-11-16 Thread Ed Summers
> 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 simply run and promote my own Z39.50 server? I guess you could say

Re: Early Confusion with MARC::Record

2003-11-14 Thread Ed Summers
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:38:59PM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: > Which brings me to my first question: why > isn't MARC::File::XML installed with it? It requires utf8, and consequently 5.8.0 at least. //Ed

Re: Early Confusion with MARC::Record

2003-11-14 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 09:40 AM, Bryan Baldus wrote: I turned "strict_off", to get through the entire file, but the exported records have had "Invalid indicators forced to blanks." I would like to get these records, and any others that generate errors, and save them (as originally rea

Re: Early Confusion with MARC::Record

2003-11-14 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 10:38 PM, Morbus Iff wrote: Next up, I've been using the camel.usmarc file as the "file.dat" equivalent in all the examples. When I ran the first example, I got: ActivePerl with ASP and ADO / Tobias Martinsson. ... Cross-platform Perl / Eric F. Johnson. wh

RE: Early Confusion with MARC::Record

2003-11-14 Thread Bryan Baldus
First, an introduction: I am a cataloger/librarian. I have very limited programming experience (2-3 classes--Pascal, C(++?) and database introduction), and am attempting to teach myself Perl with Coriolis' Perl Black Book. I have only made it through parts of the book, enough to understand the bas

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