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Your search (subject=computer programs and scripts) returned 8 hit(s):

1. MicroPhone scripts for searching MEDLARS
   • Description: Scripts written with Microphone (a communications program for Macintosh and DOS-based computers) can greatly simplify searching the MEDLARS family of databases. (MEDLARS is an acronym for medical literature analysis and retrieval system. It includes the files MEDLINE, its backfiles, HEALTH, et cetera.) This article describes some of the scripts the author has written and explains how they can be used to improve your searching techniques.
   • Date: 1992-03-21
   • Source: Originally published as Easy Searching: MicroPhone Scripts for Searching the MEDLARS Family of Databases, Online 16(2):65-69, March 1992.
   • Subject(s): articles; computer programs and scripts; MicroPhone; MEDLARS;
   • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/medlars-scripts/index.shtml
2. Email.cgi version 5.0.3
   • Description: The purpose of email.cgi is to extract the contents of an HTML form and send those contents to one or more email addresses.
   • Date: 1994-11-02
   • Source: This software documentation was never formally published.
   • Subject(s): computer programs and scripts; AppleScript; email;
   • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/email-cgi/index.shtml
3. Really Rudimentary Catalog
   • Description: This text describes the purpose of the Really Rudumentary Catalog, ponders the usefulness of library catalogs in general, and finally outlines the technology behind this catalog's implementation.
   • Date: 2004-02-14
   • Source: This text was never formally published.
   • Subject(s): MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging); computer programs and scripts; OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogs);
   • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/rudimentary-catalog/index.shtml
4. ListWebber II
   • Description: ListWebber provides the means for searching LISTSERV and ListProcessor lists while reducing the need to know their searching syntax.
   • Date: 1996-05-31
   • Source: This text was never formally published.
   • Subject(s): computer programs and scripts;
   • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/list-webber/index.shtml
5. Simple HTML Editor (SHE) version 2.9
   • Description: Simple HTML Editor (S H E) is just that, a simple editor for creating hypertext markup language (HTML) documents. It is in the form of a HyperCard stack, and therefore, it requires HyperCard or HyperCard Player, as well as a Macintosh.
   • Date: 1994-03-21
   • Source: This software was never formally published.
   • Subject(s): HTML (Hypertext Markup Language); computer programs and scripts; HyperCard;
   • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/simple/index.shtml
6. HyperNote Pro
   • Description: HyperNote Pro is a HyperCard stack used to annotate text. It can also create true hypertext links between itself and other documents or applications.
   • Date: 1989-11-08
   • Source: This application was never formally published
   • Subject(s): HyperCard; computer programs and scripts;
   • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/hypernote/index.shtml
7. MARC Reader: a HyperCard script to demystify the MARC record
   • Description: The purpose of this article is to demystify the MARC record and list a short HyperCard script that translates a MARC record into an easy-to-read format. Furthermore, this article demonstrates that advanced library applications can be created with simple, readily-available tools; with HyperCard and a bit of investigation any librarian can create their own electronic card catalog.
   • Date: 1991-12-01
   • Source: This article was originally published in Computers in Libraries 11(11):52-55, December 1991.
   • Subject(s): HyperCard; MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging); computer programs and scripts; articles;
   • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/marc-reader/index.shtml
8. Alcuin, an NCSU Libraries guide
   • Description: This HyperCard/MicroPhone combination was the beginings of an expert system design to help users of the NCSU Libraries facilitate their learning, teaching, and scholarlship.
   • Date: 1994-01-10
   • Source: This program was never really published.
   • Subject(s): MicroPhone; HyperCard; computer programs and scripts; expert systems;
   • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/alcuin/index.shtml

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Creator: Eric Lease Morgan <eric_morgan@infomotions.com>
Date created: 2000-06-20
Date updated: 2010-05-01
URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/