Subject: RE: Fwd: Re: warning message
From: Johnston, Ray (rejohnston@raytheon.com)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 17:04:09 CDT
Great idea, Thomas. Log files are a great way to collect debug information
without worrying the user unnecessarily.
Is there a way to just keep a "tail" of the log file for this purpose so
that it doesn't grow too large?
--Ray Johnston
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From: Thomas A Webb [mailto:tawebb@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 4:50 PM
To: John H. Raines, Jr.
Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: warning message
I'm also a user, using AbiWord on recycled computers we donate to
schools and other non-profits. We will probably process several hundred
computers this year, and AbiWord is an excellent wordprocessor for
people on the wrong side of the digital divide.
I suggest we put warnings and non-fatal error messages in a log file
rather than displaying them to the user, since it does no good to see
tham rolling past on the screen, but may be of value to the installer or
help person.
"John H. Raines, Jr." wrote:
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> On 6/5/01 at 3:55 PM John H. Raines, Jr. <raines@one.net> wrote:
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> From: John H. Raines, Jr. <raines@one.net>
> To: "Dom Lachowicz" <dominicl@seas.upenn.edu>
> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 17:29:45 -0400
> Subject: Re: warning message
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> As a non-programmer, but a user, I will tell you that these kinds of
> messages are "bugs" or incorrect from the users viewpoint and will not be
> acceptable from a long term standpoint. No organization is going to want
> to deploy a program that issues these kind of "benign" warnings on a
> regular basis. At a minimum it is annoying. At worst it confuses less
> hardy users and causes distrust of the program in general. It definitely
> should be on the list of behaviors to change before 1.0.
>
> keep up the the good work guys, a really nice program so far.
>
> Regards,
> J. Raines
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> On 6/5/01 at 3:55 PM Dom Lachowicz wrote:
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> Quoting gino peregrini <gino@ghazalpage.net>:
>
> > I've recently started running IceWM on RedHat 7.1. When I open AbiWord +
> > a file from a command line, I get the following message repeated three
> > or four times. The warning appears in the term and AbiWord seems to
> > function fine. The warnings only appear when I open AbiWord and a file
> > by issuing "AbiWord _filename_."
> >
> > Does anyone have any insights on this warning? (BTW, my files are either
> > RTF or ABW.)
> >
> >
> > WARNING (offset 00000000): Reading of Header Section failed
> > WARNING (offset 00000000): UID1 has unknown value. This is probably not
> > a (parsable) Psion 5 file
>
> These warnings are quite benign. What abiword does is the following:
>
> 1) Try to recognize the document's contents
> 2) If that doesn't work, try to recognize the document's extension
> 3) If that doesn't work, open it as text
>
> So what you see is the Psion importer trying to recognize the contents of
> the
> file and failing. This is normal.
>
> Dom
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