[Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO Files -andPFTFormats

Giuzzo Barbaro g.barbaro at mclink.net
Tue Apr 29 20:14:05 CEST 2014


Dear Ernesto

I'm not familiar with Gizmo files :-(  , but I'll try to follow you detailed instructions.
Thank you very much

Regards
giuzzo
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: spinaker 
  To: Giuzzo Barbaro 
  Cc: isis-users at iccisis.org ; Jean-Claude Dauphin ; egbert.desmet at uantwerpen.be 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:23 AM
  Subject: Re: [Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO Files -andPFTFormats


  Dear Giuzzo

  You can do a global change specific to a single field using MX utility
  Let's say your target field is v100
  then you need a gizmo file, let's name it  gsfldcolon

  the command should be

  mx  TECA gizmo=gsfldcolon,100   iso=TECA.iso  now -all tell=1000

  to create such  gizmo file you can do directly from the command line

  mx seq=con   create=sfldcolon  now     [then will open a new line to write]
  ^e|:
  F6  ( or Ctl+Z)
  ready!!!

  Regards
  Ernesto Spinak




  El 28/04/2014 19:06, Giuzzo Barbaro escribió:

    Dear friends,


    In facts to solve the problem of the 'missing titles' in a practical way, I was thinking about making a sort of "global change" in the ISO file, changing "~^e" with " : " , which is the correct ISBD(M) syntax for this subfield in the title area (indeed there is no real need to use a repeatable subfield in this particular case) - or similars. But the problem is that this change may affect all the ^e subfields also in the other fields in the whole database, if any. And the syntax is not always the same. How can I make a global change only in field 1 in the whole ISO file (or similar actions)?


    Good night to you all
    Giuzzo

    Il giorno 28/apr/2014, alle ore 22:59, spinaker <spinaker at adinet.com.uy> ha scritto:


      Dear Giuzzo

      You are right, repeatable char is only used in the data entry worksheet, because the repetition feature is managed by the directory section of the Record,
      Anyway, you always can edit an ISO record as a text file,

      Regards
      Ernesto

      El 28/04/2014 17:54, Giuzzo Barbaro escribió:

        Dear Ernesto and Jean-Claude

        Thank you for the hint, but the problem is that the ISO file apparently has no % character: In the export form -from DOS version- I selected the # character as record delimiter and ~ (Alt+126) character as field delimiter. (The % character is only used in data entry worksheets, but it does not appear in the export ISO files, or at least I cannot see it - I sent some sample ISO file in a previous mail, so you can check).

        :-(

        Kind regards
        giuzzo
          ----- Original Message ----- 
          From: spinaker 
          To: isis-users at iccisis.org 
          Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 10:36 PM
          Subject: Re: [Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO Files -andPFTFormats


          Dear Giuzzo

          Yes, this trick works, because I do this kind of customization of  ISO files very often

          Regards
          Ernesto Spinak


          El 28/04/2014 17:25, Jean-Claude Dauphin escribió:

            Dear Giuzzo, 


            I think that you can edit the ISO file with a text editor and replace the % character by another one such as  the & character. I am not sure but it may work.


            Best wishes,
            Jean-Claude





            On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Giuzzo Barbaro <g.barbaro at mclink.net> wrote:

              Dear Egbert and Jean-Claude

              many thanks for your valuable hints. It seems now to be working ...!  :-)

              Egbert, you' re perfectly right: the indexing technique 0 (instead of 5) in field 26 in the FST is a real mistake.
              I didn't even notice that in the JISIS dictionary there was no entry "Z=xxx" (in the sample I sent).
              The very strange fact is that the (wrong) syntax (26, 0, mpu,"Z="V26) in the FST worked perfectly for more than 20 years in hundreds and hundreds of libraries using TECAdb in the CDS/ISIS-WinISIS versions (!?)  (in facts you can easily check that in the sample ISIS "DOS" version I attached to the mail, you can find all the "Z=" terms in the Inverted file, despite the wrong syntax!).

              Anyway, I changed the FST as you suggested and tried your test-PFT and it works!
              Now I'll try to change all the PFT's in a correct way (and may be I will need your help again, because now I'm getting some parsing error... :-(  )

              Thanks again

              (I'm still having problems with the repeatable subfields, as I told you...I understand that this is probably due somehow to a certain "misuse" of the repetitions)

              Kind regards
              bye 

              giuzzo


              ----- Original Message ----- From: "De Smet Egbert" <egbert.desmet at uantwerpen.be>
              To: "Giuzzo Barbaro" <g.barbaro at mclink.net>

              Cc: "Jean-Claude Dauphin" <jc.dauphin at gmail.com>
              Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 8:37 PM 

              Subject: RE: [Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO Files -andPFTFormats


              Hello again,

              no need to apologize, I only wanted to make clear why there was no immediate reply.
              Now, I checked your PFT and I think the problem is with the syntax.

              First of all I changed the line creating the 'Z=' entries, by making it technique 5 (instead of 0) :
              26 5 '/Z=/',mpu,(V26/)
              as before that I didn't see any Z= entries in your dictionary.

              Then I created the following PFT for testing the REF-function (e.g. called 'testref') :
              (if p(v27) then
              REF(L('Z='v27),
              'V1='v1'  ',
              'V26='v26'    ',
              'V29='v29/'<BR>')
              else 'no references' fi)

              and the output for MFN 2 is, in my opinion correct :
              V1=^aInferno V26=005555 V29=1
              V1=^aPurgatorio V26=005556 V29=2
              V1=^aParadiso V26=005557 V29=3

              Based on this output from the basic model PFT for the REF-function, I think you should be able to correct your PFT with correct output.
              If you don't manage, let us know.
              Egbert de Smet
              Universiteit Antwerpen
              ________________________________________
              From: Giuzzo Barbaro [g.barbaro at mclink.net]
              Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 3:49 PM
              To: De Smet Egbert
              Cc: Jean-Claude Dauphin
              Subject: Re: [Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO Files -andPFTFormats

              Dear Egbert, Dear Jean-Claude

              Thank you for your kind interest.
              I am perfectly aware that you -and many people in the ISIS community- are
              working mostly on a "voluntary basis" for the ISIS project, and all of us
              are
              very grateful to you for all the efforts (and the great work) you have done
              and still are doing for us.
              Therefore I apologize if I gave to you the impression to ask (or worse
              "claim"...!) for a quick solution: it was absolutely far from my intentions.
              I just wanted to share a problem with people having a much deeper knowledge
              than mine, thinking that maybe other people encountered -and solved- the
              same problems,
              and I sent the files attached to my previous mail because I was asked to do
              so by someone. In the last days I shared with friends living near me the
              great surprise and the honour of getting an (unespected) answer from you to
              my emails.

              (I can simply add that working on a "voluntary basis" applies somehow also
              to me-at a much lower level, as I was asked to solve this problem -on a free
              basis, of course, as usual...- by others who updated their machines to
              64-bit ones, and this is not "my" database - I am only a school Math
              teacher, with a little ISIS knowledge due to many years of usage.)

              Therefore it is not my intention to abuse your kindness and your time, not
              to put anyone in a hurry to solve my problems, please trust me. English is
              not my native language, and maybe some of my expressions are not a correct
              translation of my real thoughts and feelings.

              Kind regards
              giuzzo

              ----- Original Message -----
              From: "De Smet Egbert" <egbert.desmet at uantwerpen.be>
              To: "Giuzzo Barbaro" <g.barbaro at mclink.net>; "Jcd" <jc.dauphin at gmail.com>
              Cc: <isis-users at iccisis.org>
              Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 1:01 PM
              Subject: RE: [Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO
              Files -andPFTFormats


              Hello,

              in order to fully check your problem (which is in fact the 'repeatable
              subfield' problem, something which originally was NOT envisaged by
              ISIS-technology) a careful setup is required and this simply takes some more
              time to be set aside for finding out. None of us is full-time freed from
              other professional responsibilities to deal with such issues, it is all
              about voluntary time and efforts, hoping to sustain the ISIS-technology.
              When we discussed the REF-function for J-ISIS the idea was to fully copy its
              functionality from WinISIS (in fact such 'run-time'-on-demand
              semi-relational capability is something other database technology is envying
              ISIS for), so that for sure should be tested carefully and if found wrong
              corrected. Maybe your data provide us with interesting testing data, that
              can be useful indeed.
              So, some patience please.

              Egbert de Smet
              Universiteit Antwerpen
              ________________________________________
              From: isis-users [isis-users-bounces+egbert.desmet=ua.ac.be at iccisis.org] on
              behalf of Giuzzo Barbaro [g.barbaro at mclink.net]
              Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 11:54 AM
              To: Jcd
              Cc: isis-users at iccisis.org
              Subject: Re: [Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO Files -
              andPFTFormats

              Dear Jean-Claude
              yesterday I sent this mail to you, with some attachments, but I got an NDR
              message from your server (message too big (?) - it was not so big, about
              160kB...). So I decided to cut the old conversations and try to send it
              again to you.
              Thanks
              Kind regards
              giuzzo
              ----- Original Message -----
              From: Giuzzo Barbaro<mailto:g.barbaro at mclink.net>
              To: María Mercedes MacLean<mailto:gaspyy at infovia.com.ar> ;
              Jcd<mailto:jc.dauphin at gmail.com> ; De Smet
              Egbert<mailto:egbert.desmet at uantwerpen.be>
              Cc: isis-users at iccisis.org<mailto:isis-users at iccisis.org>
              Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 1:46 PM
              Subject: Re: [Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO Files -
              andPFTFormats

              Dear Jean-Claude, Maria Mercedes, Egbert and all friends,

              attached to this mail you'll find some files (in .zip format) - 2 export
              .ISO files and the TECA db structure,  and an explanation (Word) of the work
              I have done, to explain in a simple (?) way the problems I have encountered.
              Thaks again for your help.
              Have a nice weekend
              Kind regards
              Giuzzo

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