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- Short: Log utility used with WPL, ver. 1.3
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- uploader: Alan Kelm (1:163/109.38 akelm@birch.ocunix.on.ca)
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- The LogProc logging utility
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- version 1.3 - June 1993
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- What is LogProc?
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- LogProc is a server program which takes "logging messages" from multiple
- sources and posts the log information to windows and files and pipes.
- LogProc supports both scrolling windows and line-addressable windows with
- cursor positioning and text attributes (bold, colored, inverse,...).
- Logproc is totally configurable, and supports both synchronous and
- asynchronous messages (you don't have to wait until the Log Message has
- been output before continuing). LogProc also buffers writes to log files,
- to minimize disk accesses. It only opens the output file when actually
- writing to it, to minimize the chance of corruption on system crash, and
- to permit reading the log while it is being written.
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- Each Logproc "log" is either a window (unbuffered) or a file (buffered).
- These logs can be grouped together into "log groups". Log messages are
- passed to LogProc as ARexx messages, from programs or ARexx scripts.
- Each message specifies the log group to which the message is to be output,
- as well as the contents of the message. Logproc then posts the message to
- every log in that log group. A log may belong to several log groups.
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- Commands exist to open and close LogProc logs as well as to flush
- (buffered) logs. There are commands to query logproc about existing logs
- and log groups, as well as to add and remove logs from log groups.
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