Re: [CODE]Win95 log

From: Julian Buckley (buckley@PC.ELEC.UQ.EDU.AU)
Date: 09/05/98


That *LOGNAME = "log/syslog" thing only exists on bpl13+...some of us
still use bpl12.

On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Douglas Mallory wrote:

> At 12:10 AM 9/6/98 , Aaron Throckmorton wrote:
> >Output of STDOUT has to be redirected to log.txt in your batch file (
> >circle.exe >> log.txt).
>
> >- fprintf(logfile, "%-15.15s :: ", time_s + 4);
> >+ fprintf(stderr, "%-15.15s :: ", time_s + 4);
> >+ printf("%-15.15s :: ", time_s + 4);
>
> But you're forgetting
> const char *LOGNAME = "log/syslog"; /* -- useful for Windows users */
> from config.c
>
> If this is null, it goes to stderr automatically.  You're changing
> functionality unnecessarily here, I think.  Use the config variable to map
> to the log, and then write to stderr for console display... No extra
> command line variables needed that way.  (You could even do a check for
> LOGNAME not being NULL to avoid duplicate writes as dummy-proofing.)
>
>     fprintf(logfile, "%-15.15s :: ", time_s + 4);
> +  fprintf(stderr, "%-15.15s :: ", time_s + 4);
>
> -
> Is that all you monks ever think about?
> Sects, sects, sects.
>
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