[Koha] Excel to MARC - Marcedit 5.8

[Paul]

At 02:37 PM 6/26/2012 +0000, Randall Rowe wrote:
>I haven't tried running MarcEdit in Wine. I've been amazed at what Wine 
>will run.

Thanks for the email. Quick answer: it doesn't (or at least not when we 
last tried), something to do with versions of .NET -- and I do have Wine 
installed to use this trusty old Eudora email client which I've been using 
since 1989 in various incarnations :=}

Best - Paul


>Randy Rowe
>Lincoln City Libraries I.T.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Paul" <paul.a at aandc.org>
>Sent 6/26/2012 9:13:32 AM
>To: "amit bondwal" <bondwal.amit at gmail.com>, koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
>Subject: Re: [Koha] Excel to MARC - Marcedit 5.8
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>At 05:44 AM 6/26/2012 -0700, amit bondwal wrote:
> >HI Sandeep,
> >I don't know much about it, but may be this can help, Is your excel
> >sheet have three sheets?  then delete the two extra empty sheets in that
> >file and save as the file in text(tab delieted) format.
> >marc edit support more text(tab delimeted) format.
> >Then try to convert by marc edit in text delimated in addins.
>
>A couple of years ago we tried to use Office97 (we've never had a more
>recent version) to do just that -- but ended up using
>OpenOffice|LibreOffice to open and save the Excel files as tab-delimited
>.csv files. Excel appeared to have difficulties with UTF8 and special
>characters.
>
>Disclaimer:  Terry Reece has done an apparently marvelous job developing
>MarcEdit; we've never been able to run recent versions as our old Windows
>laptop is more of a museum exhibit than a useful tool.  I would strongly
>suggest joining the list at <http://metis3.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MARCEDIT-L>.
>
>As an aside, has anyone managed to get MarcEdit to function on a Linux
>box?  We have failed miserably.
>
>Best - Paul
>
>
> >Regards
> >Amit Bondwal
> >
> >
> >On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Stacy Pober [via Koha]
> ><ml-node+s1045719n5717713h8 at n5.nabble.com> wrote:
> > > There's an excellent support list for MARCEDIT called MARCEDIT-L. Â Terry
> > > Reese, the author of the program monitors the list, and he will often 
> offer
> > > solutions along with some of the other list subscribers.
> > >
> > > 
> <http://metis3.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MARCEDIT-L>http://metis3.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MARCEDIT-L
> > >
> > > It's also a good way to give input on features you'd like to see or 
> to find
> > > out whether someone already has solved a particular problem you're 
> having.
> > >
> > > Stacy
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> As marcedit is proprietary software, unfortunately the only person who
> > >> is likely to be able to help is the marcedit author, unless someone else
> > >> has seen and solved it before.
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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