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- This are some excerpts from the README.rtf:
-
- FileSpy is copyrighted (c) 1996 by Felix Rauch.
-
-
- FileSpy
- A logfile observing utility
- by Felix Rauch
- felix@nice.ch
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- 0. Introduction
-
- FileSpy has many advantages:
- - It's free, so you don't have to pay anything for it.
- - It comes with full source code, so you may improve or debug it, if
- you wish to do so.
- - It seems to work. I like it and use it whenever I'm working on my
- NeXT. So do some of my collegues, which means it does a good job for us.
-
- However, it has also some disadvantages:
- - It's free, so you won't get support for it.
- - It comes with full source code, but the source is ugly. I started
- this programm two years ago, when I knew much less about how to make
- a good programm, without having a clear project or even design. Over
- the years, I inserted code wherever I felt it would be a good idea to
- do so. This resulted in ugly code and not so well designed objects.
- Please do not look at this programm as an example of how to do things.
- - It seems to work. As I explained above, FileSpy is a really useful
- and working application for me and some other people. For you it may
- be a buggy and completely useless collection of bits.
-
-
- 1. Copying, warranty and legal stuff
-
- For most people, this program underlies the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC
- LICENSE. However, there are special restrictions for people having to
- do with nuclear weapons. See the file CONDITIONS for details.
-
- THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
- EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
- WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-
- For more details about terms and conditions about copying,
- distribution and modification see the file COPYING.
-
- This product includes software developed by Rich Salz, i.e. the
- wildmat-routine.
-
-
- 2. Features
-
- This is a short list what FileSpy does. For more detailed help, see
- chapter 4. Using FileSpy.
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- FileSpy helps you monitor your log- and lock-files such as
- /usr/adm/messages, /tmp/console.log, /usr/spool/uucp/Log,
- /usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..cufa and similar ones. It lets you do the following things:
- - Select as many log- or lockfiles as you want and pop up a window as
- soon as something happens to to these files. These means when:
- Something is appended to them; they're removed or created; they're no
- longer accessible; they reduce their sizes (in this case, FileSpy of
- course can't show you any new text, so it just prints a message on the
- console that the file reduced its size).
- - Have one window for each observed file or log everything in one
- central Multilog-window. Files may have different colors to be quickly
- identified in the multilog or their names may be printed each time
- they log something or just when a different file starts to print its
- output to the multilog. You may also print timestamps when something
- is logged.
- - Use a filter to strip out non-interesting messages. The filter
- allows the use of wildcards, as well as for the logged texts as for
- the filenames to which the filter should be applied.
- - List lockfiles in a Existencelog-window to find out quickly which
- lockfiles currently exist and which don't. You may also print the time
- how long a lockfile existed.
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