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Posted by popiel at Dec 25, 2003 12:07:46 PM

Re: Messy Logs

Tee_Beard wrote:

Whoever said it was?

Vexorg wrote:

just do XML, and have all the flexibility you'd ever need.

Sounds pretty magical to me.

Tee_Beard wrote:

How would you handle, though, multiple clients writing to a single logfile?

I'd add an option to add another prefix, possibly with different delimiters for easy identification:

[20:03:01] <Talek> [crew] Talek says, "Just another circumlocution."

I wouldn't have it on by default, just because most people wouldn't need it / wouldn't care. (And yes, I know at least two people who often run two clients simultaneously.)
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