Thus it was written in the epistle of Roger Hall,
> If you are logging bottom, please consider logging to disk instead of
> paper and save that tree. Install a UPS, too.    :}

Ok.  I considered it.  :-).

1) It's amazing how difficult it is to get to that disk log in the rare
   instance when the 3000 is down.

2) That console log is used by the operators (and by the head operator and
   myself in working with them) on a fairly regular basis.  There is no
   program, no matter how well written which can give you access to the disk
   log like you have to the paper one (or, with the same readability, either).

3) At least at the moment we're struggling with user licenses around here
   (cf. other postings), so moving something which is convenient and useful
   offline into a form which is somewhat less convenient and useful online is
   not an improvement

Nope.  The log stays.  And not because "we've always done it that way," but
because it is a valuable tool in our shop.  Besides, with the size of our
console log, a month's logging doesn't even use up a good sized branch, much
less a tree ;-).

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a
wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
                                      -- Bell, Eric Temple (1883-1960)