On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Moreover, does something like Marc4J or MARC::Batch and friends deal
> with these alpha field names correctly?

I believe the Perl modules MARC::Batch/MARC::Record accept records with alphabetic characters as tags. Searching "alpha tags" (without quotes) at The Mail Archive for Perl4Lib [1] retrieves 6 messages in what appear to be two threads.

[1] <[log in to unmask]&q=alpha+tags" target="_blank">http:[log in to unmask]&q=alpha+tags>

I hope this helps,

Bryan Baldus
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