[Trlog] Who Will Kill TRlog?

[Craig Cook]

My money is on N1MM.

--- Rick Tavan <tavan at tibco.com> wrote:
> It's true, tr is dying. After all these years, it
> may not be possible to 
> plug all the holes so it will run reliably in
> everyone's DOS windows or 
> on machines manufactured after 1995. It is
> inevitable. It happens to old 
> software. I, too, hope that someone comes up with a
> nice wrapper and 
> simple set of guidelines that extend the life of tr,
> but even so, 
> eventually it will become the tool of only a few of
> us die-hards.
> 
> I'm actually a relative tr newbie, having switched
> to it in order to log 
> the Sprint just a few years ago, just before a few
> other programs 
> figured it out. I've been delighted by its
> flexibility and appalled by 
> its complexity and environmental sensitivity. For
> the last NCCC meeting, 
> W0YK organized a logging software shootout with
> advocates for each major 
> program describing, defending and proselytizing for
> their favored 
> program. He couldn't find a good advocate for tr
> even though we thought 
> it was the most widely used. I finally agreed to
> speak on the subject, 
> given some expert assistance from friends who know
> the program much 
> better than I ever will. I described it as "the
> logging program everyone 
> loves to hate." My bottom line is that if you can
> make it run and keep 
> it running and tune it deftly for each event, then
> it will increase your 
> score more than any other package. If you don't use
> it right, however, 
> it will send you blithering off to the insane
> asylum. And this becomes 
> more true every year for more contesters.
> 
> Our friend will die. As soon as one of the Windows
> programs gets to 
> about 60% of tr's feature set, the end will come
> quickly. Which one will 
> it be? Writelog, N1MM, miLog? The race has already
> begun. The betting 
> window is still open.
> 
> /Rick N6XI
> 
> 
> 
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