Re: [patch] Accept # as Blank Indicator

2003-11-19 Thread Colin Campbell
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:50:22PM -0600, Chuck Bearden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:50:39PM -0600, Ed Summers wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:11:39PM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: MARC::Field-new('100','1','', a='Logan, Robert K.', d='1939-'),

[patch] Accept Letters as Indicator

2003-11-19 Thread Morbus Iff
Anne L. Highsmith says: Quoting from MARC 21 Specifications for Record Structure, Character Sets, and Exchange Media RECORD STRUCTURE, http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/specrecstruc.html#varifields Indicators may be any ASCII lowercase alphabetic, numeric, or blank So, if that's the case,

Re: [patch] Accept # as Blank Indicator

2003-11-19 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:43:52AM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: The LC also uses $ to represent sub-tags (I think that's what they're called; just woke up... the $a/$b things). But, I seem to see _a and _b more often. Which is more prevalent? LC's MARCMaker/MARCBreaker utilities use $ if I

Re: [ot] Targeted Spam Harvesting from *lib lists?

2003-11-19 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:50:05AM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: Has anyone encountered targeted spam from perl4lib or oss4lib posts? I've posted numerous times to perl4lib, and once to oss4lib. Just now, I suddenly got a spam for BowkerLink, which submits to Ulrich's Periodicals Directory,

Re: Clarification on MARC::Simple Intent

2003-11-19 Thread Chuck Bearden
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:16:20AM +0100, Tajoli Zeno wrote: Hi to all, At 01.52 19/11/03, Morbus Iff wrote: [...] Is that something anyone would be interested in? I suspect there are a huge amount of problems with the approach (most prominently that the idea of using tag numbers was to

Re: [patch] Accept # as Blank Indicator

2003-11-19 Thread Chuck Bearden
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:43:52AM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: The OCLC conventions are probably much more widely known than the LC ones simply because most libraries doing copy cataloging use OCLC as their utility. The LC also uses $ to represent sub-tags (I think that's what they're called;