Hello, Gerald;

23 Nov 02 09:33, Gerald Miller wrote to Robert Bull:

 GM> Sorry for not specifying the "*Tee" directly, but yes, I have a few
 GM> ALIAS commands at the start of my batch:

Interesting - I wouldn't have thought that tee would work from an alias, 
but then, 4DOS is something special.

 GM> the Squish Maintenance Log and I now think it takes a real effort to
 GM> get a truly proficient SED script file.  I only use SED on very basic
 GM> tasks....

I would agree with that  :-)  The O'Reilly AWK & SED book seems the first 
one that has any kind of intelligible explanation of SED, but once one has 
got to grips with at least the basics of AWK, AWK is so much more 
productive...

 GM> I saw your approach discussed with andrew to be very informative and I
 GM> will attempt an adaptation on my end.  My 4dos entry point is (check

 GM> And, I appreciated the System reports technique.  Most enlightening!

You're very gracious.  Thank you  :-)

I occasionally run the DOS version of SqTool to give system statistics.  As 
this and the reports extracted from WIMM's log are only of private 
interest, it made sense to put them in a special echo that GoldED knows 
about but Squish doesn't, so there's no risk of them ever getting scanned 
out.  It also made sense to post them as *.MSG, so that they could 
automatically be deleted using DELAGE.COM, and avoid having to maintain the 
area manually.

 GM> your NDOS, see if it will support the "/q" switch - eliminate the
 GM> "NUL"  ;-)) ):

I'll have to dig out the manual!  Thanks for the tip.

 GM>     copy /q C:\Fd\FD.LOG + C:\Fd\Sq\WIMM.TMP

I never thought to consolidate the log files, but think I'd prefer to keep 
them separate anyway as some are more important than others.

 GM> And now I see that I should have been more "creative" in
dealing with
 GM> the wimm.tmp file, perhaps on a certain %{at}filesize THEN copy /q....

My MAIL.BAT contains the lines

logtrim wimm.log 32 40 ""
if errorlevel 1 wait Problem trimming WIMM.LOG...

which means that every time WIMM.LOG exceeds 40K, LOGTRIM.COM chops the top 
off to reduce it to 32K.  WAIT.COM is yet another Horst Schaeffer utility;

Syntax:   WAIT [minutes:]seconds[.decimal] [prompt]
          waits up to 1 hour (or unlimited if no time specified)

I admit that I had forgotten how complicated the process was until I looked 
at it again in this discussion.  I must have _really_ wanted to get the 
results!

Maybe I should add, my usual choice for running AWK scripts is Mike 
Brennan's MAWK, MAWK122X.ZIP.  GNU AWK (GAWK) is the best-known one now, 
but MAWK is not only a smaller download, it usually runs scripts much 
faster too.

     Regards,

              Robert.

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