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+ | **Removing very large corrupt records using the Verify utility** | ||
+ | The Verify utility would crash in version 232 when trying to cleanup a file that contained a ' | ||
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+ | There was a problem in the utility (and in MARC Report overall) that would cause this behavior, and that has been fixed. The program should now be able to cleanup a file containing very large (invalid) records with no problems. | ||
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+ | The disk cache used by the utility is 512,000 bytes, and one reason the problem arose is because a single ' | ||
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+ | This type of problem (records with an invalid record length) occurs several times in almost every database we receive. Sometimes the record length is written as 6 bytes to accomodate the size of the record, and sometimes it simply starts counting over again at 0 when byte 99999 is reached (like a car's odometer). The problem seems to arise when attempting to export every holding for a (serial) record that is held many (many) times by every member in the system((one vendor' | ||
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+ | If only we had MarcXml--there would be no limits! | ||
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+ | If you do run into a problem that might be related to this, please contact us for assistance. |