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Is their any hope for those of us who rely on our Expect-monkeys in III? My most important Expect scripts use the create-list function, and I hope that'll stay around for a while. But I'm sure they'll eventually go away too. Has III shown any interest in building in their own macros/automation features to do the sorts of tasks for which we rely on Expect? Ken Kyle Banerjee wrote: > Last week, III announced that they are removing a number of > circulation functions from the telnet menus in a software update that > became generally available this month. From what I've been able to > surmise, functions that will be removed include placing holds and > checking things in or or out. Removing these menu options will break > scripts that have been in use for years at institutions in our > consortium, and lots more staff time will be required to perform > certain tasks after some systems are upgraded. > > Apparently, III recently discovered that a bug involving holds was > caused by the character-based system, but it is also related to a > desire to port everything to Millennium. Based on the reasoning behind > the announcement, future updates are likely result in other mission > critical scripts breaking as other character-based functionality is > deprecated. > > Just a reminder of the risks of relying on automation that depend on > interfaces that are losing vendor support. > > kyle > -- Ken Irwin Reference Librarian Thomas Library, Wittenberg University