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Date: 18 Jan 91 16:48:35 GMT
From: peirce@gumby.wisc.edu  (Leonard Peirce)
Organization: Western Michigan University Academic Computing Services
Subject: JOBLOG V1.2 (terminal session logger) is now available
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JOBLOG V1.2, a terminal session logger with secure logs, has been posted
to vmsnet.sources for those of you that get it.  It's also available via
anonymous FTP from gumby.cc.wmich.edu in the pub/vms/joblog directory.
As in the past, I won't be posting it to comp.os.vms because of the
complaints about posting sources.  We *really* need comp.sources.vms.

For those of you that don't get vmsnet.sources and don't have access to
FTP, let me know and I'll e-mail copies out.  It might be until January 28
before I can get around to mailing out some copies (except for those of you
who requested copies of 1.1 and decided to wait for 1.2) because I'll be in
Dallas January 20-25 for the USENIX conference.  If any of you are going to
be there, track me down and say hi.

As for the stuff that's new in V1.2:

	1) No more dropped reads on the TTY.  This fixes a major problem
	   in 1.1 that caused the I/O to get out of sync.  The new method
	   of I/O doesn't use mailboxes to detect I/O on the TTY and PTY
	   and is also a major performance win.

	2) PHOTO mode, which allows those of you out there that don't want
	   to bother with setting up the stuff for secure logs (system
	   logicals, system directories, daily skimming, etc.).  With
	   PHOTO mode turned on, JOBLOG will act just like PHOTO with the
	   log files being created in the current directory.  Instructions
	   are in the README.TXT file.

	3) Skimming actually works that way it was supposed to in 1.1 and
	   actually adds a few things.  The sender and recipient are now
	   BOTH warned and the date the log file will be deleted if not
	   retrieved is included in the warning messages.

	4) JOBLOG will now work with SMP VAXen.  I didn't run into this
	   until a few days ago when we installed our 6000-520.

See you in Dallas.
--
Leonard Peirce                  Internet:  peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu
Western Michigan University                peirce@gw.wmich.edu
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