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***** TODO LOG

1) Are "-" legal barcode characters?  Fix the \w regex so
   barcodes 1 slot-1 works.
   Steve Lidie, sol0@lehigh.edu, 2002/07/02.


***** CHANGE LOG


***** 0.0.6 -> 1.0.0

1) Enhance barcode simulation.
   Steve Lidie, sol0@lehigh.edu, 2002/06/12.

   Current barcode simulation is OK for small auto-loaders whose media
   content is rather static.  Implement a new barcode scheme using a 
   Perl DBM file (NDBM?).  This would allow dynamic updates as "juke"
   manipulates the hardware.  A storage media's fake barcode
   information lasts from the time the media is loaded and the operator
   enters the barcode until the media is unloaded.

   ********************* DONE, SOL, 2002/07/03 *****************************

   Implemented using a SDBM database in version 0.0.6.  Barcodes are set
   either by clicking on a media slot in tkjuke, or the juke command line.
   See the juke POD for details.

2) "juke loaded" must return a list of loaded barcodes.
   Steve Lidie, sol0@lehigh.edu, 2002/06/12.

   ********************* DONE, SOL, 2002/07/03 *****************************

   Fixed in 0.0.6.


***** 1.0.7, 2003/06/27

1) Add EJECT_BEFORE_UNLOAD configuration options to offline a tape prior to
   unloading it.

2) JukeBox.pm now exports its configuration option via the hash $JUKE_CONFIG
   rather than individual variables.  The name of the old variables are the
   hash keys.

3) Add a juke "config" option to display the configuration options and values.

4) Tested with mtx 1.2.17.


***** 2.0.1, 2003/07/07

1) Turn tkjuke into a master/slave program, embedding slave tkjuke windows
   inside the master's NoteBook widget.


***** 2.0.6, 2003/07/11

1) To share messageBox calls, even a slave needs to initialize $mw_master.

2) $EJECT_BEFORE_UNLOAD - forgot to add it to juke's next/previous code.

3) POD-ify juke/tkjuke documentation.


***** 2.0.7, 2003/12/23

1) Fix JukeboxSlot Checkbutton -onvalue for Tk804.025.


***** 2.1.0, 2004/02/29

1) Add the mtx <=> atape compatibility layer for AIX.
2) Add a SIGHHUP handler to tkjuke that takes inventory of the jukebox and
   updates its display.  Used by unattended backup scripts to keep the
   display accurate as they manipulate the device. The slave's PID is kept
   in /tmp/tkjuke-slave-${device}.pid.


***** 2.1.1, 2004/03/10

1) atape-mtx: if a storage element is abnormal and full, no barcode is
   available, so just mark full rather than abnormal so tkjuke can move it.
   Do the same for data transfer elements.
2) Add a new juke command "refresh-tkjuke" that sends a SIGHUP to tkjuke.
   juke uses this new feature to refresh tkjuke when media is moved.

***** 2.1.2, 2004/08/18

1) Add kluge code for an IBM ULT3582-TL used with Redhat Linux. The jukebox
   and mtx do not talk properly and mtx doesn't recognize that the device
   can transfer and has a mail slot. Set the variable $ULT3582_TL_on_Linux
   to 1 in tkjuke.  Then, from the jukebox front panel configure the mail
   as a normal media slot rather than an import/export slot.  tkjuke will
   annotate DTE slot 1 as the mail slot rather than the last slot as it
   would normally.  No bump support is provided, however - the slot 1 
   annotation is just sugar to appease the operators ;)

2) Change the EJECT_BEFORE_UNLOAD default from 0 to "rewind" to prevent
   media from being accidentally ejected if a drive is busy.

***** 2.1.3, 2006/03/09

1) Finally have a dual-drive jukebox - the same IBM ULT3582-TL as above.
   Widen tkjuke's drive window so the optional scrollbar disappears.

2) Make some juke system commands non-fatal: if tar gets a media error, it
   unloads the bad tape, then invokes the media-change script. But the juke
   code first tries to unload the tape before unloading the stacker, and on
   some systems unloading an already unloaded drive gives an error, thus
   the media change fails.  Make the drive-unload-before-a-cartridge-unload
   non-fatal.

3) As noted above, juke does some non-jukebox things, i.e. it touches the
   physical drives to work around vagrancies noted above, e.g. sometimes
   a tape must be rewound/unloaded before an library operation is permitted.
   Since I only had access to single drive libraries, the install prodcedure
   only configured once drive. Now the install procedure asks for multiple
   drives, and juke maps DTE numbers to physical drives in its commands.

4) Fixed a "one off" error due to multiple drives when plugging a loaded
   DTE's barcode in an SE status line.

When all was said and done, less than 20 lines of source code needed changing.
Not bad considering I had no actual dual-drive hardware when writing the original
code - I simulated everything!

Here are some additional mods/changes:

5) juke commands barcodes, config and help are faster because they don't first
   status the changer.

6) Added the contrib/ directory featuring tkreload2 and my Perl Makefile.PL
   input file make.in.

***** 2.1.4, 2006/03/17

1) Save the results of juke's initial status.  Subcommand processors use that
   rather than statusing the library yet again - makes things run a tad faster.
2) juke's barcodes command with an empty barcode removes the entry from the
   barcode DB.

Other than the above, this release is mainly to update other CPAN components
and otherwise fix errors reported by the CPAN indexer when I submitted 2.1.3.

3) So I removed Proc::killfam, Tk::ExecuteCommand and Tk::CollapsableFrame
   from this distribution - you'll have to install them yourself.