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[Paul Schulz <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Nate Bargmann <n0nb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> * On 2010 08 Jun 19:08 -0500, Paul Schulz wrote:
>> Hi Nate and the group..
>>
>> I also have an 'on-going' hacking project on a contest logger.
>> - Based on 'xlog' (Ubuntu package)
>> - My changes are in a git repository here:
>>     http://git.mawsonlakes.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=paul/xlog
>> - Written in c.
>

(snip)

> Personally, I'd hesitate to suggest C for this project.  The so-called
> scripting languages offer too many useful features for this sort of
> project not to take advantage of them.

Not particularly tied to C. Perl is actuall my preference as well, and
part of the 'plan' was to migrate to perl once the GUI had been
defined in glade (XML).

(snip - some other very good comments)

I concur with 'data integrity' comments, even to the point were
multiple output files could be specified (eg. local spinning disk and
flash drive).

I would like to also see 'log entries' submitted as 'messages', which
can then be written to disk or sent across an IP network (eg. UDP), or
even sent out via radio (eg. logging APRS)...

Cheers,
Paul