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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:44:31 -0500
From: Bernhard Eversberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Format-material type codes

J. McRee Elrod wrote:
> Using numbers with a one-to-one correspondance to gmds could be useful.

And it would eliminate the necessity of inputting a $h in 245! Software
then could insert the current terminology behind the title, and changes in
that terminology would no longer necessitate global changes in databases.
The $h was a flawed idea from the beginning. Get rid of it.

Bernhard Eversberg
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D-38023 Braunschweig, Germany
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