Locating Records1

Locating Records

The default behavior of the Zebra system is to reference the records from their original location, i.e. where they were found when you run zebraidx. That is, when a client wishes to retrieve a record following a search operation, the files are accessed from the place where you originally put them - if you remove the files (without running zebraidx again, the server will return diagnostic number 14 (``System error in presenting records'') to the client.

If your input files are not permanent - for example if you retrieve your records from an outside source, or if they were temporarily mounted on a CD-ROM drive, you may want Zebra to make an internal copy of them. To do this, you specify 1 (true) in the storeData setting. When the Z39.50 server retrieves the records they will be read from the internal file structures of the system.