[Info-vax] What is your favorite tool lo look at open batch log files? I use a vested ICR LIST from 1988 (binary translated from VAX to Alpha)

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <053c7c04-6581-4917-97fa-8aa19ffa5b84o at googlegroups.com>, Jon
Pinkley <Jon.Pinkley at gmail.com> writes: 

> On Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 2:52:13 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> > In article <b7763814-0d4d-4985-b5a9-e820f0ce68e0o at googlegroups.com>, Jon
> > Pinkley writes: 
> > 
> > > The main thing I like about it is that it can read open batch log files, 
> > > unlike an editor.  
> > 
> > EDIT/TPU/READ will allow one to view open batch log files...
> > 
> 
> Phillip, thanks for pointing that out, I thought I tried using
> EDIT/TPU/READ, but I just verified that EDIT/TPU/READ does work, but
> EDIT/EDT/READ does not. 

Right.  That is one reason I sometimes use TPU.  Others are when there 
are long lines (though I think that this has been fixed in the 
meantime), when more than 65,535 commands need to be processed at once, 
or when I need the "learn" functionality.  Otherwise, I prefer EDT since 
it starts up more quickly, macros can be written in a compact style, it 
doesn't load the entire file unless necessary, the cursor movement is 
fast and more to my liking, and so on.

> My guess is that I don't like EVE for large files, 

Same here.

> and when I tried
> EDIT/EDT/READ, I just assumed that EDIT/TPU/READ would be the same. 

I'm not sure why EDT (which DOES have a /READ_ONLY mode) has a problem 
with open batch log files.  One can get around it with a simple script 
which uses BACKUP/IGNORE=INTERLOCK (a good example of a case where it 
makes since to use this qualifier) to create a temporary file (though 
that could take a while if the file is huge) and then run EDT on that.