$Id: README,v 1.4 2004/11/23 14:37:20 mike Exp $


Net::Z3950::RadioMARC
=====================

This module provides a simple way to write test-harnesses for the
University of North Texas's "radioactive MARC record" project.  This
approach tests Z39.50 servers and explores their indexing strategies
by injecting a "radioactive" MARC record whose fields contain known
values unlikely to occur naturally in the wild, and searching for
them.


Playing with the Module
-----------------------

In the root directory of the distribution (i.e. the directory that
contains this README file), run the simple example script as follows.
(Once you've installed, as described below, you can omit "-I lib".)

	perl -I lib etc/simple.pl
	perl -I lib etc/objective.pl

Take a look at these scripts.  They shows you the two styles in which
the module can be used.  They're pretty self-explanatory, and probably
provide a better introduction than the actual documentation does.


Installation
------------

To install this module type the following:

	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make test
	make install


Dependencies
------------

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

	The Net::Z3950 module, version 0.46 or later
		The Event module, version 0.77 or later
		The YAZ Z93.50 toolkit, version 2.0.28 or later
	The MARC::Record module, version 1.38 or later
		The Test::More, File::Spec, File::Find and Carp modules.


Copyright and Licence
---------------------

Written by Mike Taylor.

Copyright (C) 2004 by Index Data ApS.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.


