> One pitfall of this approach, however,
> as mentioned earlier, is that macros
> within command lines will probably
> be substituted by empty strings.
> In some cases they may get substituted
> by other inappropriate values.
Ouch. A very good point, and one I did not think about.
This makes my solution (and any based on -file-) pretty
much useless for all but the simplest of log files.
Oh well.
Nick W
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