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
>

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Ken Irwin
Reference Librarian
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University