cavern output - patch available

[Phil Underwood]

OK,  I've done the alterations, and everything seems to work. Because the
version of survex I'm working on is already patched for 3dx output, I've =
had
to create a patch with the 3dx mods and output control combined. The new
options would be...

-x      --use-new-format        output in 3dx format.
-q      --quiet                        only display the general summary
                                             and error messages =20
-m      --mute=09                     only display error messages=20
-s       --suppress-aux=09         only produce 3d/3dx file=20
                                             (no pos,inf,err files)

You can get the patch from the Chasm homepage at
http://members.xoom.com/bighairyone/chasm/survex-0.93.diff

If you really, really don't want to install the 3dx stuff, (but you know
you want to really...)
you could try patching using the "top-up" patch at the
bottom of the Chasm page (under Goodies).It should work with a bit of
bodging, with the exception of two bits, which are near some of the 3dx
changes, so patch __may__ not be happy. Also some of the line numbers wil=
l
be wrong. Good luck.

 On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Wookey wrote:=20
>On Mon 17 Apr, Phil Underwood wrote:
>> Would anyone feel a benefit from an option telling cavern to only outp=
ut a =20
>> 3d (3dx for chasm users)  file? I'm starting to get irritated  by cave=
rn =20
>> dropping various .pos, .inf, .err throughout my directory -  it makes =
it =20
>> harder to find the more useful files. I'm sure that it would be relati=
vely   =20
>> trivial to suppress this output.=20
>=20
>There is a good argument for these files to disappear by default once we=
=20
>have expanded the .3d format so that all this info goes in there instead=
=2E=20
>It might be more widely useful to work on this as opposed to just=20
>nobbling these files?=20
Well, my 3dx file format already has error information in it,
almost all the inf stuff can be easily calculated (there'll be a "cave
statistics" option on the next release of chasm), and the pos stuff must
be included anyway. The only thing that's missing is the node-counts and=20
number of loops.=20

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Phil Underwood <furbrain@furbrain.screaming.net>
Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/bighairyone/=20
"It's not what you've got, it's how you make it explode."