Hello Jasen,

    Responding to a post in the 4DOS area:
    On Tuesday December 23 2003 at 11:56,
    Jasen Betts [3:640/1042] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: new! improved!

 JB> I'm going away for a few days so this is just a quiuck reply

Okay.  My response will be waiting for you upon your return.  Have a Happy
Holiday Season.

 GM>> :: what the head of each log line looks like
 GM>> ::  set LOGHEAD=%%_TIME%%  %{at}UPPER[%{at}NAME[%0]]:
 GM>> ::  [changed by GBM - Monday, December 22, 2003]
 GM>>   set LOGHEAD=%%_TIME%%ÿ
 GM>> ::  NOTE: There is a "hard space" character (Alt 255 - on my
 GM>> system) at the
 GM>> :  end of %%_TIME%%

 JB> Mark's the expert on the format...
 JB> I wonder if there'a a way to do loghead setting in an option...
 JB> (hmm, seems expressions don't work in the data file)

 JB> I don't like the use of non-ascii characters

 JB> I don't like the hard space, manbe instead use %%{at}CHAR[32]
 JB> (with two % signs) or use ` ` (a space with back-quotes)

 GM>> The above change eliminates some redundancy within the log file:

 JB> mark was pretty adamamt that the format was important.

As I have found out!  I won't pee in his cornflakes again.

 GM>> ::  if "%1"=="HELP" .or.
"/HELP"=="%1" .or. "%1"=="-HELP" %=
 GM>> ::  [changed by GBM - Monday, December 22, 2003]

 GM>> if "%{at}UPPER[%1]" =="HELP" .or.
"/HELP"=="%{at}UPPER[%1]" .or. %=
 GM>> "%{at}UPPER[%1]"=="-HELP" %=

 JB> but what does that change do?

As far as I've been able to determine, it would convert any mixed case
input for help into all upper case.  Doesn't change the value of help and I
didn't think it was totally necessary, but Bob Brisco indicated in a
message to you on Thu 04 Dec 03 {at} 16:02, that it was required on his system
or else he would have problems.  He might be running on a system where
mixed case produces different results (i.e., OS/2, *nix)...  That change
didn't produce any ill effects on my system, so I inserted it as an attempt
to placate Bob.

 GM>> :: echo ! %LOGHEEAD% Nothing to do [...]
 GM>>    echo ! %LOGHEAD% Nothing to do [...]

 JB> oops!

  What can I say?

 GM>> ----------  Mon 22 Dec, SCHED Process

 JB> oops no year! I missed that too. i prefer

 JB> %{at}SUBSTR[%{at}YEAR[%_DATE],1,-2]

 JB> for debugging reeasons.

I'll give that a try.

           Thanks ... Gerald

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