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Skriven 2006-09-26 10:29:00 av Paul Quinn (3:640/384)
    Kommentar till text 579 av Felipe T. Dorado (2:345/702)
Ärende: Log, outbound estensions
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Hi! Felipe,

In a message to All you wrote:

 FTD> Where can I find a complete explanation for:
 FTD> - the meaning of the special characters printed at the beginning of
 FTD> some events listed in the log ( $ + - ? )?

Found it!  I've been searching for 2 days for something like a description of
these.  I knew I had come across them being documented in a package I looked at
a few years ago, but it wasn't a package I use.

Their meaning is documented in a 1996 release of NLMaint, by David L. Nugent
(author also of BNU and Inspecta, and RAMSG).  Page 17 of the NLMaint 'doc'
file (.prn, actually) says:

-----8<-----C-U-T--H-E-R-E----->8-----
	    Log file entries are always prefixed by a single character indicat-
	    ing its type. These are:

		     <it/Char	Level Description/

		     (space)0	  Comment or progress report
		     :	    1	  A significant progress report
		     +	    2	  An expected event
		     %	    3	  Reporting the result of an operation
		     $	    4	  Records exceptional handling of a nodelist
		     *	    5	  Warning - an unexpected event
		     ?	    6	  Reports an unexpected error, usually file access
		     !	    7	  Fatal error - abnormal program termination
-----8<-----C-U-T--H-E-R-E----->8-----

The numbered 'level' indicates a log-level setting for the program.

Whilst it doesn't directly document their use for Binkley/BinkD, etc, it
probably reflects their (mutually agreed) use amongst software developers in
the early Fidonet days.

 FTD> - the extensions of the files that may appear in the outbound
 FTD> directory ( .cut .ilo .req .hld .try )?

I knew their description would be fairly easy to find.  ;-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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