Hi Jürgen:
Thanks for your reply. I feel somewhat stupid because never thought to look in
HOWTOs.
Too brainwashed by macOS world view vs Linux world view.
respect…
Peter
> On Jun 5, 2023, at 6:51 AM, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann
> <m...@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> thanks for the proposal. The logging facilities are already
> described in the GNU-APL-Designers-Guide.html and
> I have added a note concerning -l 37. Also:
>
> apl --help
>
> mentions it, although it could be missed there due to the many
> command line options.
>
> SVN 1705.
>
> Best Regards,
> Jürgen
>
>
> On 6/4/23 20:44, Peter Teeson wrote:
>> Hi Jürgenl:
>>
>> I was trying out how to startup APL using command line parameters. My first
>> attempt worked:
>>
>> Last login: Sun Jun 4 13:43:24 on ttys000
>> Gandalf:~ pteeson$ apl -l 37
>> …..
>>
>>
>>
>> But I had to know that LID_startup was enum 37.
>> (UserPreferences::parse_argv_0(..) {.. if (!strcmp(argv[a], "-l") &&
>> atoi(argv[a+1]) == LID_startup)
>>
>> That seems to imply I had already built apl, launched it, and typed ]LOG to
>> find the LID_startup enum.
>>
>> So I’m wondering if we could maybe add something to the READMEs?
>> Perhaps similar to the README-7? Listing the LOG table?
>> Maybe indicating which can be used on the command line?
>>
>> Just a thought…
>>
>> respect…
>>
>> Peter
>
