oss4lib

Thomas writes: "Changes in 1.2c1.1.1
from the previous version include: correct MARC-8 character encoding conversions to Unicode when MARC records are rendered as XML, and all MARC 880 fields are now preserved when the MARC is converted to XML. This is accomplished by using the MARCCharSet.dll, included with this package; MARC XML output has been improved to more exactly conform to the Library of Congress MARC XML standard; the MARC parser has been made more tolerant of badly formed MARC; support for additional YAZ ZOOM Options has been added; the ZOOM_TEST program has been simplified, the code cleaned up, and targeted to a Z39.50 server that should actually work."

Thomas writes: "VB-ZOOM is an ActiveX COMponent, written in Visual Basic, which is an implementation of the ZOOM Abstract Z39.50 API. It uses the YAZ Toolkit from Index Data to provide the low-level functionality. VB-ZOOM makes it very easy to write simple Z39.50 clients on the Windows platform. It can be used from any language which support ActiveX COM, including Visual Basic, C++, VB Script, Javascript, Delphi, Perl, and probably others. In addition to the basic Z39.50 support, the component has some support for converting the MARC and OPAC record syntaxes into XML, and using XPath to extract data. Of course, the code is open source and freely available for download from SourceForge."

Kevin writes in: "PATC (pat see) Public Access Terminal Control is now available at patc.sourceforge.net... PATC is open source [and consists of a] VB client and perl/cgi server."