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Hahn, Harvey wrote: > them (see my OML site). However, with increased experience and > experimentation, I've found that one can figure out many workarounds > that can accomplish things *without* being able to read certain portions > of a screen, and I've incorporated these kinds of things into my > scripting here. I tried writing a script to tag records by plugging in a value to a certain field in the cataloging client, but a selection dialog box would often randomly pop up. I was never able to figure out why, as the combination of keystrokes had no relation whatsoever to the field of the random pop-up. It seemed like this happened more often on my underpowered spare box (~256MB RAM) than my audio editing main box (2.8 GHz, 2GB RAM) I gave up, and exported the data to analyze outside of the system. When forced to edit records in-system via script, I use Expect with perfect results. I only discovered Expect in the last year, but it's been so useful that any Innovative move to disable INNOPAC cataloging functions would be a big shove in the direction of our switching to open-source. What do they gain by dropping the character-based, anyway? Do they actually have to commit any resources to it still? -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [log in to unmask]