On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:20:09 -0500, Jack Sasportas wrote:
>While troubleshooting pop problems we tend to watch or tail the log files, and
>in doing so the hyphans or brackets allow you to quickly see the fields per
>say of data, this instead of a bunch of numbers where spaces kind of melt
>together...
Rather than modify qpopper, I'd recommend piping the tail output
through an awk or Perl script. You could use awk with a printf to put
the numbers in fixed-width fields, making them line up better in
columns.
Ken
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