GARY STRAWN PROGRAMS
9/22/10spg, rev. 7/15/16rem
This document describes the downloading, installing, and general configuration for Gary’s programs. These are our mostused programs, for which there are separate guidelines as well:
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BibDelete/Suppress
Location Changer
VgerSelect
For each new release of Voyager, Gary creates new releases of his programs. If he doesn’t get to it right away users will
nudge him on the Voyager-L listserv. If you have a question or problem with a program, post to Voyager-L. Gary himself
will often reply. Or you can email him directly.
Upon installation, the program (.exe) and initialization (.ini) files are located as follows:
Program
BibDelete
Location
Changer
Program (.exe) file
C:\Program
Files\SkeletonForGroup\BibDelete.exe
C:\Program
Files\LocationChanger\LocationChanger.exe
C:\Program Files\VgerSele.exe
VgerSelect
Initialization (.ini) file
C:\ users\[your login
name]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows\BibDelete.IN
I
C:\users\[your login
name]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows\VGERLOCS
.INI
C:\users\[your login
name]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows\VGERSELE.
INI
(Two other programs that may be useful are ChangeSubfieldText, and Change852Indicator. The second program does
not show up on Gary Strawn’s main list of programs, but can be accessed at:
http://files.library.northwestern.edu/public/Change852Indicator )
While the report folders for Gary’s programs can live anywhere it may be helpful for all of us to use the same location in
Documents:
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C:\Users\[your user name]\Documents\BibDelete Reports
C:\Users\[your user name]\Documents\Location Changer Reports
C:\Users\[your user name]\Documents\VgerSelect Reports
Steps for installing a program:
1) To download a program go to http://www.library.northwestern.edu/public or
http://files.library.northwestern.edu/public/root/ and click the desired program. If there is more than one version, look for
the one that matches our current version of Voyager. If we are at the latest version of Voyager (e.g. Version 8.21 =
2008.21), choose the most recent. If not, find the one that matches our version.
a) To see what Voyager release we’re at:
 Go to C:\\Voyager\Catalog.exe [the program, not the Catalog folder]
 Right-click
 Choose Properties then Details and see File version. As of June 2016 it was:
Gary Strawn programs -- p. 2
b) On Gary’s webpage you would select the most recent file or the one in which the first six digits match our
current version of Voyager:
Underpinning all this is a BatchCat.dll file. Much of the functionality of programs in Windows is provided by DLLs, or
dynamic link libraries. If you go to C:\\Voyager\System (i.e. the System folder) you will see the current BatchCat file, e.g.
BatchCat2009-20.dll. For more information see the BatchCat.dll Technical User’s Guide in the folder of Voyager current
documentation.
2) Right-click the desired zip file and save to your desktop (or wherever you like to put these things)
3) Right-click the zip files and choose Extract Files
4) Open the folder. Using BibDelete as an example, the folder includes these files, which vary for each program:
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BatchCat.dll
BibDelete.exe
setup.exe
5) Click setup.exe to install the program, accepting all the defaults
6) Open the program. Click Options. There may be one or multiple tabs, but the options are similar from program to
program, although Location Changer has more than the others.
Here’s BibDelete as an example:
ODBC connection name
Voyager database prefix
ODBC read-only signon
Voyager cat/acq signon
Voyager owning library
Voyager cataloging location
Folder that contains ‘Voyager.INI’
Folder for validation files
Folder for reports
NUC code
Click OK, make default
vger
wesdb.
<system connection signon, like you’d use to run an Access report>
<your Voyager user name and password>
WU, which will appear automatically after you fill in boxes underneath,
close, and reopen the program.
ocat Olin Cat. Off.
C:\Voyager\
C:\Voyager\Catalog\TagTable\OCLC\
C:\users\<your username>\
My Documents\BibDeleteReports
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