For those interested in this sort of thing, I added the 'logger'
package to the tcllib CVS head yesterday.  This code provides logging
services, but with a lot of extra things that 'log' doesn't have -
first and foremost, the concept of services, so that you can seperate
out all the different things going on in your systema and specify
which ones you want to hear about.  It's also relatively fast, both
when turned on, and even more importantly, when disabled.  If you
really pull out all the stops, your code is *almost* as fast as not
having any logging command at all, when turned off, at least in Tcl
8.4.

In any case, happy Tcl'ing,
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David N. Welton
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