OCLC Micro: Volume 4 Issue 1

Co‐Respondents

There's an easier way to edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT file than that reported on p. 9 of the Dec. 1987 issue! [There's also an error in one of the file names!]

NETWORds

The original version of this article (OCLC Micro, vol. 3, no. 3, June 1987, pp. 6–7) contained an error. If you have DOS 3.1 or above and followed the instructions in the article…

DOS‐tips

Mark Bendig

From time to time, you may find that you need to call a batch file from within another batch file. [See p. 5 this issue.] If you've tried this in the past, you've found that DOS…

Project Download:: Putting OCLC in Your Own Database File

John E. Lashbrook

Many people have wanted to do many things with OCLC‐MARC records. I would like to track the different kinds of bibliographic records processed by my cataloging staff so I can…

Use of the Apple Macintosh to Access OCLC: A Preliminary Report

Edward J. Valauskas

With more than 16 million records accessed by more than 6,000 libraries, the OCLC Online Union Catalog [OLUC] is one of the world's largest bibliographic databases. [There are now…

The First Wave: CD‐ROM Adoption in Offices and Libraries: I

William Paisley, Matilda Butler

The amount of information that could be distributed in the world increased by many orders of magnitude with the invention of movable type and the printing press. Then, however…

The New WordStar … Is It for You?

David Kaufman

Remaining faithful to WordStar over the years is a lot like keeping an old car; you love the thing because of its essential qualities, but it would be nice to have just a little…

Not for Novices

Mark Bendig

If you're creating a batch file that you expect to be around for a while, especially if it does anything complex, it's a good idea to scatter remarks throughout the file to inform…