[Koha-devel] Fw: Conversion of old library program data

[Chris Cormack]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:22:34PM -0400, Nicholas Rosasco said:
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Underwood Bill 
> To: nsr_koha at hotmail.com 
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 1:58 PM
> Subject: Conversion of old library program data
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> Hello Koha,
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> I'm a high school librarian in British Columbia, Canada... and have been checking out your website as we are looking for a libray program to replace our very old DOS program.  A big questions
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>       Is there a way that patron and cirulation records could be converted from our old DOS program to Koha... or would we have to enter all from scratch... a monumental task!
> 
Hi Bill

The short answer is most likely :)
If you can get the records out of your existing system as a text file.
With some semblance of order/pattern. Then we will be able to write some
perl to munge them into koha.

We did this for the original koha install, and im sure its been done many
times since.

Getting the data out is the hard bit, if you can get it out, we can get it in.

Chris