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              Technical notes on version 1.8 18Dec01
                       19 December 2001
                        Kern Sibbald

General:
- Did a nearly complete implementation of Job names.
- Due to the above, the protocol between the daemons has
  changed so all daemons must be updated.
- Quite a lot of cleanup of the Console program remains
  to be done to switch over to Job names rather than JobIds.
- Major change to Console sqlquery command -- see below.

Changes submitted this submission:
- Modified some of the makefiles to do a better job
  of cleaning up during a make distclean.
- Added MediaType, VolStatus, and PoolId to values returned
  by db_get_media_record(). This allows checking for anonymous
  volumes.
- In all places possible, I now use the Job rather than JobId,
  there are still some vestiges that will need to be cleaned up,
  and JobId is still the database key for the Job record.
- Eliminated M_WARN, now replaced by M_WARNING everywhere.
- Modified the sqlquery command so that it puts you in query
  "mode" keeping you in the command until you terminate it
  with a blank line. Enhanced the prompts to be clearer.
- Fixed a bug with reminding the user to do a mount after
  a label -- the erronous and confusing message should now
  be supressed.
- Removed very ancient JobId/password code from the File
  daemon. This was implemented differently from the original
  form.
- Made a significant cleanup of handling reading tape labels
  and allowing anonymous volumes (that is any volume that
  is valid for the pool rather than the current volume).
- Added additional error information to bnet.c when an error
  occurs.
- Changed the names of a couple of files to make their contents
  more obvious from the name.
- Combined the code for waiting for additional media to be
  added to the database and for waiting for a mount.