At 04:05 PM 12/16/97 -0500, you wrote:
>When reviewing the USMARC electronic file transfer specs this afternoon,
>I noticed the following sentence (p.55):
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>"A file of USMARC records is transferred electronically *following* a label
>file that identifies and characterizes the file of USMARC records..."
Robin, I have no memory of why the order was specified, but it does make
more sense to me that the label file would be sent AFTER a successful FTP
operation, not before. And that in most systems in which there is some
automatic trigger (which is not our case at this point), it is the presence
of the label file that triggers a process, not the data file.
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