$Id: README,v 1.1 2005-10-12 11:53:49 mike Exp $ This area contains sample programs that exercise all three of the APIs supported by this module. The programs for each API are contained in separate subdirectories: net-z3950-zoom -- Test programs using the low-level Net::Z3950::ZOOM API, which is an as-literal-as-possible translation of the ZOOM-C API. You should almost certainly not bother reading these programs: they are for the benefit of the module maintainers. zoom -- Test programs using the object-oriented ZOOM interface, which is a nice, Perlish interpretation of the ZOOM abstract API as documented at http://zoom.z3950.org/api/ net-z3950 -- Test programs using the obsolescent Net::Z3950 interface, which is provided by this distribution as a plug-compatible replacement for the old Net::Z3950 module. There is no reason to use this API unless you are maintaining an existing application that uses Net::Z3950. In general, each sample program exists in a different version in all three directories, under the same name in each. The programs are: zoomtst1.pl -- A direct translation of the "zoomtst.c" application from the YAZ distribution, except that these versions go on to fetch the records that they find, whereas the C version is satisfied just to get the hit count.