From: jkotland AT socs DOT uts DOT EDU DOT AU (Jerry Kotland)
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Subject: Re: TIP OF THE WEEK
Date: 2 Sep 1997 19:38:28 +1000
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Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De> writes:

>Paul Derbyshire wrote:
>[...]
>> Now, comb your disk for *.CHK files. For each one found, more it to the
>> screen: more file0001.chk for instance. (If that doesn't work you have a
>> weird/old DOS, and can try more <file0001.chk instead. Note the '<'
>> added.) Chances are one is your precious debugging output. Rename it,
>[...]
>Good idea. Nevertheless run SCANDISK/CHECKDSK once _before_  the faulty
>program, delete all FILE*.CHK. This decreases the files you have to more
>(or better: less ;-) afterwards.

Or you could write a small logging module, something that opens
a predefined logfile, writes your string and then closes it.

Something like
InitLog (char *logFileName);
LogMessage (char *format, ...); // vsprintf could implement this.

It works for me! :)

-Jerry.

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