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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:30:46 CST
- Sender: NOTIS discussion group list <NOTIS-L@TCSVM.BITNET>
- From: Gina Gestautas <C231GNG@UTARLVM1.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Conversion program LCN011B/LBC090
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:47:00 CST from <MLACY@KSUVM>
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- On Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:47:00 CST Michael Lacy said:
- >We have a third party tape of MARC records that is produced by
- >The Library Corporation of Inwood, WV. They are now providing
- >2048 byte records that are spanned. We use to get variable record
- >unspanned and they processed fine. Now we receive a return code of
- >12 when we try to process the new spanned 2048 byte records. We have
- >changed the recfm=u to recfm=s. We are using VSE with NOTIS and we
- >would like to hear from anyone who has run into this circumstance.
- >
- > Thanks, Michael Lacy (913-628-4067)
-
- I seem to remember that the issue here is that originally, the MARC format
- specified spanned to be the spanning of data across fixed blocks (which were
- actually defined very small to acommodate ALL library systems of that time).
- It was handled by the specific software and actually.. now, this small block
- size can easily be handled by most if not all of the current library systems.
-
- Today, we have the concept of record spanning which is handled by the operating
- system, not the specific library system software. This is NOT the same
- kind of spanning that is mentioned in this job. The specifics for MARC data
- spanning are handled differently than system spanning, although at the end
- both do the job of conserving space and thus resources. Hope this adds a
- little light.
-
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- Gina Gestautas, Programmer/Analyst II >> MVS/SP, LMS 5.0.2, MDAS 1.2.1,
- University of Texas at Arlington >> NOTISEARCH 1.0.1, GTO 3.0
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