On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't think FROM and TO solve my problem. For example I have one log file
> covering October, November, December, and another covering November,
> December, January and I wish to produce a report covering October to
> January. If I feed both log files in together I believe I get double
> counting of the records in the overlap period. I need a way of ignoring the
> duplicated records.
>
I agree, FROM and TO don't help. You need a per-logfile FROM and TO, but
there isn't one. I think the only way is to pre-process the logfiles. On
Unix this would be trivial (use head and tail to extract the top n or
bottom n lines), but I don't know if something similar's available for
Windows.
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