yaz - Man Page

YAZ is a C/C++ programmer's toolkit supporting the development of Z39​.50v3 clients and servers​. The YAZ toolkit offers several different levels of access to the ISO23950/Z39​.50, SRU Solr (client only) and ILL protocols​. The level that you need to use depends on your requirements, and the role (server or client) that you want to implement​.

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• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer​.
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yaz-client(1), yaz-ztest(8), yaz-config(8), zoomsh(1) bib1-attr(7)

YAZ manual ( /usr/share/doc/yaz)

YAZ home page​^[1]​.

Z39​.50 Maintenance Agency Page​^[2]​.

Index Data

1. YAZ home page
   https://www.indexdata.com/yaz
2. Z39.50 Maintenance Agency Page
   https://loc.gov/standards/z3950/agency/

yaz-asncomp(1), yaz-client(1), yaz-config(1), yaz-iconv(1), yaz-icu(1), yaz-illclient(1), yaz-json-parse(1), yaz-log(7), yaz-marcdump(1), yaz-record-conv(1), yaz-url(1), yaz-ztest(8), zoomsh(1).