Re: Help for z39.50 search in proquest dissertations and theses

2008-02-19 Thread Ashley Sanders
Anne L. Highsmith wrote: I am trying to create a perl program using Net::Z3950 to connect to and search the proquest dissertations and theses database. I can connect and search via YAZ, but am having no luck via perl/Net::Z3950. Here's the perl program: use Net::Z3950; $mgr = new Net::Z3950::M

Help for utf-8 output

2008-02-19 Thread Shieh, Jackie
I was wondering if anyone has similar experience and has come up with good solutions to help solving the challenge below?! What I have is an Excel spreadsheet for dissertations which I have saved as a tab delimited file (examining the file in TextPad, the diacritics appears to be fine), then read

Re: Help for z39.50 search in proquest dissertations and theses--new question

2008-02-19 Thread Anne L. Highsmith
I discovered the solution to my first problem. It appears that the proquest server is funky (?) in that you need to set the record format before executing the search. So, I just needed to add a line after the connection string, i.e. $conn = new Net::Z3950::Connection($mgr, $target, $port, datab