From: phil@pottsoft.demon.co.uk
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 4:48 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Web Counter 2.4 with Purveyor Support and distributed lock
manager

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I have just released an update version of Muhammad A Muquit's Web Counter 2.4
program ported to VMS . Thanks to Neil Rieck, it now works with Purveyor
(http://www.process.com/), as well as the OSU HTTPD web server
(http://kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu/www/doc/serverinfo.html). In addition, Neil
added proper counter data file locking using the VMS Distributed Lock Manager.
I stress tested this simulating 50 users simultaneously accessing the same
page over a 5 second period and it worked perfectly (my setup was VAX VMS 6.2
and OSU HTTPD 3.9).

You can get the new version at my Freeware "VMS Hobbyist's" sites:

http://www.pottsoft.demon.co.uk/pds/pds.html#WebCount

and

http://www.yrl.co.uk/~phil/pds/pds.html#WebCount

(latter courtesy of Yezerski Roper Ltd. - visit them at http://www.yrl.co.uk/
 and tell Elliott that "Phil sent you" :-)

I have updated these sites recently, and the VMS page now has a bibliography
based on postings by Professor David D. Miller, Arne Vajhoj and others which
have appeared on comp.os.vms. I added links to Amazon for as many of the books
as I had time for.

I recently downloaded PGP 6.5.8 with a view to porting that, but it looks like
an awful lot of work, given the lack of GNU autoconf for VMS, so I suspect it
will be quite some time before I manage that. If anyone else is working on it
then please get in touch.

- - Phil Ottewell

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