Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]> wrote
 
>Hi Phil,
>
>two ideas regarding saving of console messages ...
>
>#1: hardware idea
>
>You might continue using LOG BOTTOM but plug the console printer port
>wire into a (yet) unused DTC port and write a small program to read that
>LDEV to collect the console message copies. Too much work if just need
>to archive the messages for later review but the program might be used
>to scan the messages on the fly and trigger immediate actions on certain
>ones...
 
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Why write a program?  Why not simply FCOPY from the port to a file?
 
 -- Evan