William Holt wrote:

Hello Paul,

As I said, I'm very ignorant of libraries and perl so forgive me for my stupidity!

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you probably forgot to enter an author, a title or an isbn BEFORE clicking on z3950 search.

The two screens in question are cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbooks.pl and cgi-bin/koha/acqui.simple/addbiblio.pl right?

yes.

So in the addbooks.pl if I type a title and press go this title does not carry over to the addbiblio.pl and I need to re-enter the book title and then push z3950 hyperlink? To enter the book title I click on the [1] hyperlink, correct?

yes.

If I do this it still doesn't work, I get a new frame (window) with Still ?? requests to go. Do I need to reset something?

that's what you should have. The ?? becoming 4,3,2,1, then disappear. The number shows how many z3950 server have not answered. see below to understand why ?? stay as it.

2 notes :

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* yes i agree it should be checked and not return an error. Enter a major bug in bugs.koha.org pls. * yes it's poor that the isbn/title entered the screen before is not kept. Enter a normal bug in bugs.koha.org

I've never done this before but I'm willing to try. You are asking me to enter these two items as bugs, right?

yes.

Finally, one other issue. I'm using freeBSD and it appears that the syntax of the "su" command is different. In the script z3950-daemon-launch.sh su -s /bin/sh -c $KohaZ3950Shell - $RunAsUser & doesn't seem to work. Instead I am using sudo -u www ./z3950-daemon-shell.sh Could that be my problem, and is there a way to make this so it can work on linux as well as freeBSD?

I don't know. I'm not a shell specialist. to check, you can : * open a console. * launch ./processz3950queue in the console. * see what happends. When a search starts, you should see a lot of infos saying "search started on XX server", "XX results to retrieve from YY server"...

Best Regards and have a great weekend!

Same for you -- Paul POULAIN Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)