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From: peirce@gumby.wisc.edu  (Leonard Peirce)
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Subject: Re: PHOTO & JOBLOG questions...
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In article <1991Jan9.153517.22394@qut.edu.au> tony@qut.edu.au writes:
>I would like some information on PHOTO and JOBLOG. (They are terminal
>session logging mechanisms)
>
>What are their current versions? What version of VMS do the
>relevant versions work with? And where are they obtainable?

I'll be releasing a new version of JOBLOG this week.  The source will be
posted to vmsnet.sources and it will also be available via anonymous FTP
from gumby.cc.wmich.edu.  If you don't run it already, I would suggest
waiting for the new version.

The new version will be 1.2.  This version is mostly bug fixes.  The big
bug that was fixed was the dropping of reads on the TTY, something that
PHOTO still has a problem with (at least the last version I had).  The
I/O was redone and sped things up considerably.

One of the features that some people have told me they would like in JOBLOG
is PHOTO compatiblity.  Some people don't need secure logging and the other
features that come with JOBLOG; they just want to be able to log sessions
and don't want to be bothered having to INSTALL it, create system logicals
and directories, etc.  If I get a chance, I'll add it to 1.2.  The code
would be #ifdef'd so all you'd have to do is turn on a #define in the source
and build it.

Version 1.3 will work with the new FTDRIVER that is available under VMS 5.4
and will hopefully be available sometime in early February.
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