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MARC 21 Specifications for Record Structure, Character Sets, and Exchange
Media
Diskette Directory Display (Exchange Media, Part 2: Diskette Transfer)
The MARC 21 diskette volume and file label files are designed to allow the determination of the content of a diskette by listing its directory using the DOS "dir" command (or similar command in other system environments). Below is an example of the directory listing for a typical diskette containing files of MARC 21 records. In this example, the diskette contains three files of bibliographic records.
Example:
A:> dir
Volume in drive A is 001
Directory of A:\
VOL.001
FIL.001
BOOKMARC.001
FIL.002
SERMARC.002
FIL.003
VMMARC.003
Since the data and files on microcomputer diskettes are usually accessed in random order, the sequence of the various files listed in the directory does not matter. The example above has ordered the files so as to show the correspondence between the file label files and the bibliographic files.
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