On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, [email protected] wrote: > Similarly, a -c that comes accross a repeatable field in the original > record could halt and notify while some other parameter could > overwrite it (so similar to -ir). Just a thought, though.
Do you mean that when a certain record R contains field F1 that is present N1 times, and the incoming MARC file contains well F1 but present N2 times, then `-c' should halt if N1 is different from N2? OT1H, I understand this would provide a nice safety net for certain editing situations. OTOH, it occurs often that the field number changes, say adding/removing author, adding/removing reference, adding/removing report number or publication... So I think it would not be worth to change the default behaviour of the `correct' mode. But perhaps we could introduce a new optional `safe correct' mode that would behave in the above-described way. But even here I'm not so sure about its usefulness, provided the current `-c' mode is well documented and the explained? Best regards -- Tibor Simko
