Hi All, Logger is done for now and is available for testing. I’ve only done testing under FreeDOS and a little under MS-DOS. If it works under others, thats fine. If not, oh well.
While it is not difficult to use, be sure to check out the DOC and DEMOS. There are some sort-of neat little things that may not be obvious. Also, the TO-DO has some ideas I’m mulling over. Let us (you, me and the rest of mailing list) know if you think we should include it on a future Interim build. Also, if you think any of the various install media should boot loading it or not. Since logging can be turned off and on. It is possible to have the LiveCD boot with it. Then when reaching the command prompt, turn it off. Then, if the OS installer (FDI) is run, turn logging back on until finished. There are also a couple other nice benefits when logger is running that I don’t feel like going over at present. Maybe later. On a side note, PRINT and ANSI are for redirecting to a text file. Not really for viewing. If the logged text was written all the way to the 80th column printing it in a 80 column wide will cause a blank line to appear when output to the screen. This is not a bug, that output is meant to be sent to a text file (like “logger print >boot.log”). It is easy enough to test if the output is redirected or not. So, I may have it not do that in future versions. Maybe I will leave it as it is. We will see. Also, the PRINT, ANSI and CLEAR options turn off logging. For PRINT and ANSI, that is mainly to prevent the user from doing something silly like “logger print | more” while logging is enabled. Which of course, would send the contents of the log back to the log. Regardless, the logger interface program has a built in viewer. It supports 4 directional movement through the log, leaves logging on or off and some other niceties. https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/logger.html <https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/logger.html> :-) Jerome
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