UFO Notes 5/31/96


Release UFO alpha 1. A z39.50 client.

For University of California folks, you can obtain the executable
from:
 
        ftp://c134.lib.uci.edu/users/anonymous/pub/z/uc/fiat_lux.zip

For non-University of California people, you can obtain the executable
from:

        ftp://c134.lib.uci.edu/users/anonymous/pub/z/non-uc/fiat_lux.zip

Please read the copyright notice, in the file "copyright.txt".

This is a demonstration program only, and as such, has limited 
functionality.   Currently it has the ability to do only the most basic
searches (author, title, or subject), and it does not yet support 
boolean searchs (and, or, not).   

For the most up to date information on bugs and release notes, please
refer to http://c134.lib.uci.edu/fiat_lux.htm

To run the program, you need to have either Windows 95 or Windows NT.  
It should run "out of the box", provided your site has a nameserver or
your "hosts" file has the IP addresses for MELVYL, the Library of Congress,
etc.

Here are a few of the entries you should add to your hosts file, should 
your site not be running a nameserver:

# next for MELVYL
melvyl.ucop.edu         192.35.222.222

# next for the Library of Congress
ibm2.loc.gov            140.147.254.1

# next for OCLC
tikal.dev.oclc.org      132.174.22.96


Current known bugs:


It doesn't block out the syntax "OPAC", "Explain", or "SUTRS", even when
I know that the databases don't handle these types of syntax.  This isn't
a fatal bug, but it does generate error messages from whatever server you're
attached to.

I haven't blocked out the backwards arrow, when on record 1. 

If the returned record isn't "proper" z39.50ese, there's a chance that the
client will barf and give you an error message from the OS and terminating
the application, rather than the client catching the error and returning 
an error message

In the statusbar in the right bottom corner, the updated record is just
based upon a counter within the program; it's not looking at the BER
getting returned from the PresentResponse, so it's possible that it
could be off.  This should be changed to read directly from the 
PresentResponse.

I'd appreciate it if you'd report any bugs or suggestions to me, at 
toyofuku@uci.edu.  

Thanks.

Tony Toyofuku