[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

jjm@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 01:09:33PM -0700, John McDermott wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > > Maybe we need some sort of error log instead of the console output (at
> > > > least on win32).
> > > >        
> > > Or a log to the application part of Event Viewer?
> > >      
> > How many users know that the Event Viewer even exists?
> >    
>
> :-) gads!, I dunno.  I'd wonder what my windoze box was doing if I didn't.
>  
Please don't use too much "IRC slang", as I don't understand it very well.

> By the same token, would they know if a log file existed?
>
>  
Well, if the user don't know about the event viewer, and don't know 
about log files, they might not be interested in that information at 
all  :-)
and might also only be annoyed to get it...

The advantage of using a log file would be, that using a log file is 
system independant.

Regards, ULFL