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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 10:31:53 PDT
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From:         Mitch Turitz <turitz@SFSUVAX1.SFSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: FIX for downloading long OCLC records to Advance
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X-cc:         heeok@zimmer.csufresno.edu,
              Priscilla Peters <pechi@ceti.csustan.edu>,
              Doug Chafe <Doug@buckaroo.geac.com>,
              Mick Miller <m.miller@buckaroo.geac.com>,
              Bruce Park <Bruce@buckaroo.geac.com>,
              Linda Dobb <Linda_Dobb@library.sfsu.edu>,
              Richard Blood <rblood@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu>

  On 4/8/92, Hye Ok Park of CSU Fresno said:
>
> Dear Mitch, Priscilla, and others:
>
> About OCLC downloading, we now have received and installed the
> Passport v.1.23.  However, we need help with actual downloading
> instruction.  We have two completely different sets of instructions
> that came from different people in GEAC.  Neither of them works smoothly.
>
> Questions: 1. What is the right sequence in downloading?  Search and
> execute downloading (XPO F11) before starting the kermit in ADVANCE?
>
>      	   2. Have you set up a script for loggin into ADVANCE for
> OCLC downloading so that the Cat. staff won't have to go thru the
> steps everytime they start the downloading session?
>
>      	   3. Has anyone tried using WINDOWS on the OCLC workstation
> to  maintain dual sessions?  In other words, keep OCLC cat. as the
> main session and use windows for the second session with ADVANCE?
>
> Note:  For your information all of our terminals including OCLCs are
> connected to PYRAMID via Campus network.  None of them, except for a
> few in the Computer room, are connected to dedicated ports.  The staff
> terminals are set to time out after 4 consecutive hours of no activity
> by the network.  I hope this won't present problem in OCLC
> downloading.
>
> Thanks in advance for your input.
>
> Hye Ok Park
> Library Automation Coordinator
> California State Univ., Fresno
> Internet: hyeok@zimmer.CSUFresno.edu
> Phone: (209)278-6528
>
Hye -- I will post the step-by-step procedures we use here, but I must
warn you: our OCLC terminals are connected directly to dedicated ports,
so these instructions may not work for you.

I.  Instructions for INDIVIDUAL GEAC-OCLC record download

 A. Opening the GEAC-OCLC connection
    1. log onto OCLC on-line  (from DOS c>)
       a. op <return>
       b. <ALT> a  <return>    (this activates built-in logon script)
       c. call up OCLC record, edit record

 B. TO TOGGLE BETWEEN OCLC and GEAC
    1. <ALT> n    (displays login:)
    2. adv <return> (displays password:)
    3. <password> <return>   (displays ADVANCE)
       (WE ARE NOW LOGGED ONTO GEAC)
    4. id:   <******>
    5. password: <******>
    6. <return>    (displays main menus)
    7. q <return>    (displays ">" prompt - we are now at TCL)
    8. >PRISM.TO.ADV <return>
          (displays OPENING DATA FILES ...)
          (displays OCLC---PRISM export MARC Data Capture)
          (displays "Start Loading MARC records from PC")
    9. <ALT> n <return>  (toggles you back to your OCLC record)
          (at this point the system remains logged onto OCLC for
           record editing and exporting)
   10. XPO <F11>  (after done editing record, adding 949, etc.)
                  (displays EXPORTING IN PROGRESS ... % complete)
                  (displays press any key)
   11. go on to next OCLC record and give XPO command when done editing
record.

   12. When done with OCLC procede to step "C."

 C. - CLOSING THE GEAC-OCLC CONNECTION.
    1. <ALT> n   (displays    start loading ...)
    2. Q <ctrl>]   (THE SEQUENCE IS, FIRST, CAPITAL "Q"
                    NEXT <ctrl> key and right bracket "]"
simultaneously! This will return you to TCL ">" prompt
    3. off <return>
           (we are no logged off geac)
    4. <alt> n  (back to OCLC)
    5. <alt> o  (disconnects from OCLC)
    6. <alt> x  (disconnects from PASSPORT)
    7. <return> (back to DOS prompt c:>)


THE ABOVE PROCEDURE IS FOR DOWNLOADING INDIVIDUAL RECORDS ONLY.  Kermit
is not required for this procedure.  There is a much more involved
procedure for BATCH downloading of records using the "EXPORT.DAT"
files created from the microenhancer.  I will be glad to fax the
procedure to you if you need it, but it is 16 PAGES LONG! (including
example screens).  I do not recommend that you use this procedure
(batch downloading) unless you absolutely cannot do individual
record downloading.  The batch downloading is very detailed, tedious,
unfriendly and you need to check EVERY RECORD on the disk to see
if it downloaded correctly.

Please call me if you need any additional info. -- Mitch



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