I ran into a similar issue a couple of months back, the solution on
Windows is to run it as a service. It is very simple, you need Mark
Hammond's Win32 extensions. For path you have to use absolute filepath
for all local files and for network drive use the UNC path i.e.
\\servername\folder-filename
John,
Your comments are very helpful. I will take the datetime stamp as the
way to go. I don't have a need to throw away the time info, it is
You said:
>What do you do if servers are in different
>timezones?
This is all inhouse in a non-daylight savings country and would not be
an issue
You a
Thanks Andreas,
In your first paragraph, you ask about incorrect input. I guess it is
possible, but without that information, my collection of the data is
useless, so I really don't know what I would do with that.
As for the other stuff, I can hack the data in other ways, such as with
VBA and MS
I am looking for a way to parse a simple log file to get the
information in a format that I can use. I would like to use python,
but I am just beginning to learn how to use it. I am not a programmer,
but have done some simple modifications and revisions of scripts. I am
willing to attempt this o
