Re: creating macro in Anzio

["Harvey Hahn" <hhahn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:01AM on 01/09/02, jrkirby@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The computer people here are threatening to install XP on my machine
> so I will have to wean myself off PfW.  I use the telnet function of
> Pfw to access our catalog to be able to use a few macros.  I have a
> simple macro for receiving items that types in the rdate field number, 
> types in the "enter" command, replies yes to using today's date,
> quits, and makes changes permanent.  I have been trying to recreate
> the macro in Anzio version 12.2. I can record all the key strokes, but 
> cannot get the date inserted.  Am I missing something really simple?
> I don't like to use rapid updating in III to receive materials because 
> I don't always have an order record number, and since I have alot of
> distractions and have been known to reverse numbers, I like to be able 
> to see the title of the material I'm receiving.

If you can wait a month or two, version 2.10 of OCLC CatME will incorporate the telnet functionality of PFW, and you'll be able to use your PFW macros with only one slight change in code.  OCLC has tested CatME (which is a 32-bit program rather than 16-bit, as PFW is) as being XP-compatible, and, since CatME is just as freely available to you as PFW is and since you've already developed working macros, it seems to me that that's the way to go.  Just my opinion, of course.


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