MESSAGELOG

Purpose:

Writes status line messages to text file.

MESSAGELOG("filename", type)

"filename"

Optional. A string, the name of the logfile where messages are to be written. Defaults to message.log.

type

Optional. An integer, the type of messages to save:

-1:	Write all messages (default)
0:	Write no messages
1:	Write only informational messages
2:	Write only errors

messagelog(2)

user actions...

messagelog(0)

viewfile("message.txt")

creates the logfile message.txt, then closes and displays the file.

The logfile is automatically closed when DADiSP exits.

Message logging can also be set in dadisp.cnf via the following parameters:

MESSAGE_LOGNAME filename

MESSAGE_LOGGING -1:ALL 0:off (default) 1:info 2:errors

Turning on message logging via dadisp.cnf allows all startup messages to be placed in the logfile.