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Ziggy release
by Mark Tearle 28 Aug '00

28 Aug '00

Hi all The following URL is a release of my failed attempt at creating a library system for UniSFA: http://phregia.ucs.uwa.edu.au/~mtearle/ziggy-r1.tar.gz Why am I releasing it? There are a few tidbits in that I want to include into Koha, there's somestuff in there that is useful as a comparison, etc. Of note: 1) some spec documents for the project 2) a port of Business::ISBN to python 3) a Cdk like curses library for Python 4) various fragments of SQL and Python (eg book recommendations based on borrowing) Yours Mark -- Mark Tearle - mark(a)tearle.com Stone: Let's stick to established procedures. -- The Andromeda Leavitt: Establishment gonna fall down and go boom. Strain (1971)

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Download(s)
by Ron Wickersham 28 Aug '00

28 Aug '00

nice to see this open source project. we are a small research library in a public astronomical observatory and are looking for such a system. i noticed that the link on the http://www.koha.org page for downoads is wrong. the link http://www.koha.org/downloads gives a 404 error. the correct link is http://www.koha.org/download. -ron Ron Wickersham Valley of the Moon Observatory Association http://vmoa.kenwood.ca.us Robert Ferguson Observatory project http://rfo.org rjw(a)rfo.org

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(Fwd) download of koha
by Rosalie Blake 28 Aug '00

28 Aug '00

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:23:13 -0600 From: john <john(a)colosys.net> To: rosalie(a)library.org.nz Subject: download of koha hey what you guys are doing is neat. we've been doing some work with waikato on indexing of newspapers using greenstone--you can look at what we're attempting at www.colosys.net/pathfinder and click on the newspaper digitization link. discoverd koha today. tried to download but it didn't seem to retreive a file--just saw the binaries. any help? first the america's cup, now two great open source library projects--must be something in the new zealand air. cheers. john campbell director pathfinder library system grand junction, colorado john(a)colosys.net ------- End of forwarded message -------

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Fwd: Re: [Koha] Some questions from a newbie
by Simon Blake 28 Aug '00

28 Aug '00

-- Simon Blake simon(a)katipo.co.nz Katipo Communications +64 25 300 825

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(Fwd) download of koha
by Rosalie Blake 27 Aug '00

27 Aug '00

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:23:13 -0600 From: john <john(a)colosys.net> To: rosalie(a)library.org.nz Subject: download of koha hey what you guys are doing is neat. we've been doing some work with waikato on indexing of newspapers using greenstone--you can look at what we're attempting at www.colosys.net/pathfinder and click on the newspaper digitization link. discoverd koha today. tried to download but it didn't seem to retreive a file--just saw the binaries. any help? first the america's cup, now two great open source library projects--must be something in the new zealand air. cheers. john campbell director pathfinder library system grand junction, colorado john(a)colosys.net ------- End of forwarded message -------

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Intro
by Michael Williams 25 Aug '00

25 Aug '00

Hello, I am Michael Williams, Network Supervisor for Haywood County Schools, located in North Carolina, USA. One of our Media Specialists has pointed me to your site and is very excited about the software. We are currently fighting an old DOS based system, trying to get it to run on a linux server and she thought this might be a solution. Does this support importing MARC records, and has anyone converted to this from an exsisting system. Michael

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Fwd: Re: [Koha] Some questions from a newbie
by Simon Blake 24 Aug '00

24 Aug '00

Hi Scott On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:35:54AM -0400, Scott McGillivray said: > First, does Koha support interlibrary loans through z39.50? Or maybe some > other method? I didn't see a way to do it through the web interface, but > maybe it's accessible through the telnet interface? It's probably not (or maybe it is, I dunno :-) immediately obvious but Koha was a Y2K rush job, in order to replace a system, or more strictly a network, that clearly wasn't Y2K compliant. Consequently, anything that wasn't imediately necessary for Levin Library to handle it's own collections was largely ignored. So no, there is no mechanism for Koha to communicate with other systems via any standard protocol, other than possibly ANSI SQL, which is probably a little lower level than we might all like. Having said that, we're keen to see Koha as standards compliant as possible, and so would support addition of both Z39.50 and XML interfaces (or indeed anything else that was deemed worthwhile). However neither are a priority at the moment over basic bug fixing and functionality enhancement. OTOH, if somebody else added z39.50 support, or offered us a bunch of cash to elevate it up the priority list, then you never know what might happen. > Next, it looks to me like everything needed to make Kona run should work on > Linux for the Alpha processor as well as x86. Has anybody tried this? Is > there anything I should look out for? My current automation system runs > under OpenVMS on an AlphaServer and I'd like to keep using this machine. It needs perl, a database engine accessible from perl via DBI, and a webserver. The further you "deviate" from linux&mysql&perl&apache, the more little changes you're likely to need to make to get it going. However, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work on any *nix pretty much out of the box, and with a bit of love it would probably work directly under OpenVMS, or Win32. > I guess that's it. I'd love to hear how this system has worked out for > people...good and bad. As indeed do we :-). Bear in mind that it's a very young system, with the commensurate bug problems and functionality holes. Having said that, there's a fair bit of interest being generated in it, which is neat, since it hasn't been publicised particularly widely yet, and we're dead keen to see it be a roaring success. Cheers Si -- Simon Blake simon(a)katipo.co.nz Katipo Communications +64 25 300 825

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Koha - The worlds first open source library systems ?
by Stuart A Yeates 24 Aug '00

24 Aug '00

Hello Everyone On the Koha homepage (http://www.koha.org/) I notice the claim that it is ``the worlds first Free Open Source Library System,'' which is apparently true if `Library System' is defined to be `a computer system to run a _physical_ library.' There is, however, an earlier system, Greenstone, from the New Zealand Digital Library (www.nzdl.org) which solves (or attempts to solve) the problem of running a _digital_ library. Greenstone, under active development at the Waikato University Computer Science Department. We have translated our interface into Maori (thanks to Te Taka Keegan for our Maori interface) and several other languages including Arabic (thanks to Malika Mahoui) (Arabic is challenging as it's reading order is right->left not left->right), so when you come to localise Koha into Maori you may wish to use our stuff as a stepping stone. It's all GPL, so you're free to take what you need (download greenstone from our web site at www.nzdl.org) It's good to see other kiwis doing innovative library stuff. stuart [grad student]

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Some questions from a newbie
by Scott McGillivray 23 Aug '00

23 Aug '00

Hello all, I just found the Koha website and am very impressed with what I've seen! I do have a couple of questions that I couldn't find answers for... First, does Koha support interlibrary loans through z39.50? Or maybe some other method? I didn't see a way to do it through the web interface, but maybe it's accessible through the telnet interface? Next, it looks to me like everything needed to make Kona run should work on Linux for the Alpha processor as well as x86. Has anybody tried this? Is there anything I should look out for? My current automation system runs under OpenVMS on an AlphaServer and I'd like to keep using this machine. I guess that's it. I'd love to hear how this system has worked out for people...good and bad. Have fun, Scott ----------------------------------------------- Scott McGillivray Network Administrator Ann Arbor District Library scott(a)aadl.org

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RE: [Koha] hard coded paths in Output.pm
by Matthew Kelly (CPL) 21 Aug '00

21 Aug '00

To get the whole thing to run I have done the following. Linux · Downloaded the following to /usr/local/src/project · Data-Dumper-2_101_tar.gz · DBI-1.13.tar.gz · Msql-Mysql-modules-1_2209_tar.gz · MySQL-3.22.32-1.i386.rpm · MySQL-3_22_32-1_src.rpm · MySQL-bench-3.22.32-1.i386.rpm · MySQL-client-3.22.32-1.i386.rpm Mysql installation MySQL Installation (From Source Distribution) Using MySQL-3_22_32.tar.gz in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES 1. gzip -c -d mysql-3.22.32.tar.gz | tar xvf - 2. cd mysql-3.22.32 3. ./configure 4. Check the configure output for errors. 5. make 6. make install 7. /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_install_db 8. cp /usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/mysql.server /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql.server 9. change the attrib to allow exec access (0777 will do) 10. /sbin/chkconfig --level 2 mysql.server on 11. /sbin/chkconfig --level 3 mysql.server on 12. /sbin/chkconfig --level 4 mysql.server on 13. /sbin/chkconfig --level 5 mysql.server on Data-Dumper Installation 1. cd /usr/local/src/project 2. gzip -c -d Data-Dumper-2_101_tar.gz | tar xvf - 3. cd Data-Dumper-2.101 4. perl Makefile.pl 5. make 6. make test 7. make install DBI-1.13 installation 1. cd /usr/local/src/project 2. gzip -c -d DBI-1.13.tar.gz | tar xvf - 3. cd DBI-1.13 4. perl Makefile.pl 5. make 6. make test 7. make install Msql-Mysql-modules installation 8. cd /usr/local/src/project 9. gzip -c -d Msql-Mysql-modules-1_2209_tar.gz | tar xvf - 10. cd Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2209 11. perl Makefile.pl 12. when asked use choose 1, then press enter to the rest of the options 13. make 14. make test 15. make install Setup Koha project 1. cd /usr/local/src/project 2. gzip -c -d koha-1.00.tar.gz | tar xvf - 3. mv /usr/local/src/project/kohadl/opac-html /home/httpd/html/opac-html 4. mv /usr/local/src/project/kohadl/intranet-html /home/httpd/html/intranet-html 5. cd /usr/local/mysql 6. bin/mysqladmin create koha 7. mysql -uroot mysql 8. insert into user (Host,User,Password) values ('localhost','koha',password('koha')); 9. insert into db values ('localhost','koha','koha','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y'); 10. mysqladmin -uroot reload 11. mysql -ukoha -pkoha koha 12. mysql -uroot koha < koha.mysql 13. We need to edit C4/Database.pm 14. To make it use the user and the database name we have chosen 15. cp /usr/local/src/project/kohadl/scripts/c4 /home/httpd/cgi-bin/ 16. mkdir /home/httpd/cgi-bin/koha 17. cp /usr/local/src/project/kohadl/scripts/*.pl /home/httpd/cgi-bin/koha 18. /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf 19. Change the "DocumentRoot" in the Apache configuration to "/home/httpd/html/opac-html" 20. Created a Virtual site in Apache like the following, Listen koha.mysite.co.nz:6588 listen barney.mysite.co.nz:80 Port 80 Port 6588 AddHandler cgi-script .cgi AddHandler cgi-script .pl # # To use server-parsed HTML files # AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml AddType text/html .html AddHandler server-parsed .html AddType text/html .inc AddHandler server-parsed .inc <VirtualHost koha.mysite.co.nz> ServerAdmin matthew.kelly(a)press.co.nz DocumentRoot /home/httpd/html/intranet-html ServerName koha.mysite.co.nz ErrorLog /home/httpd/html/intranet-html/logs/error_log TransferLog /home/httpd/html/intranet-html/logs/access_log </VirtualHost> 21. copied the Includes folder to /usr/local/www/htl/htdocs Hope that helps

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