"tkjuke" is a GUI for manipulating a jukebox in a windowed environment, which uses the program "juke" as the underlying controller. It has been tested under Linux and IRIX - the default configuration defaults are suitable for many Linux installations. The "juke" command is a Perl wrapper to the jukebox control program "mtx". Once installed and configured, manipulating the jukebox is totally consistent among various computers. Additionally, "juke" can simulate barcodes for jukeboxes lacking an actual barcode reader. It does this by consulting an SDBM file that maps barcodes and jukebox slots. Perl and Perl/Tk are available from the CPAN, and are presumed already installed. "mtx" is available at sourceforge.net, and is presumed already installed. In "tkjuke" lingo, a jukebox is a physical device consisting of one or more Data Transfer Elements (DTE) and one or more Storage Elements (SE). Think of a DTE as the hardware that reads/writes storage media, perhaps magnetic tapes or optical disks. An SE stores media until it's loaded into a DTE. A mail slot is a special SE used to add or remove (bump) media from the jukebox without having to open the jukebox up, as is required with a simple stacker device. In the case of two-sided optical media, "tkjuke" can invert the media if there is hardware support. This code has been tested with various auto-loading stackers, and I've written emulation code that simulates larger jukeboxes with multiple drives, mail slots and invertable media, but since I don't actually have such a beast, I can only hope everything works in the real world. "juke" provides a simple command set. Briefly, here is what "juke" can do: juke status - print jukebox status juke first [DTE#] - unload current media, load first juke last [DTE#] - unload current media, load last juke next [DTE#] - unload current media, load next juke previous [DTE#] - unload current media, load previous juke [invert] load SE# [DTE#] - load media from jukebox, maybe inverted juke [invert] unload [SE#] [DTE#] - return media to jukebox, maybe inverted juke [eepos eepos#] transfer SE# SE# - transfer media or bump mail slot juke loaded - print barcode(s) of loaded media juke barcodes [bc1 bc2 ... bc-#slots] - print or set jukebox barcode list Steve Lidie Lehigh University Computing Center sol0@lehigh.edu 2003/06/02