[Orca-dev] Re: RE[2]: Digest 336

[Blair Zajac]

Rusty Carruth wrote:
> 
> Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
> > Rusty,
> >
> > Would you mind sending me a new patch for your new states columns so it can
> > go into the next orcallator.se?
> 
> Sure.  When do you want to have it done by?


Any time.


> 
> > A couple of requests.
> >
> > 1) If you could format the lines down to 80 characters, probably by
> splitting
> >    the line into multiple lines, that would be great.
> >
> >    statetmp = lr_disk$dr.state;      states[0] = state_char(statetmp);
> >    sum_states[0] = state_dig(statetmp);
> 
> No problem.  (Boy, I'm really spoiled with these nice Sun 21" monitors ;-)
> 
> > 2) Use the latest orcallator.se 1.30b1 at
> >
> >    http://www.orcaware.com/orca/pub/orcallator.se-1.30b1.txt
> >
> >    to apply the patch to.
> 
> Will do.
> 
> > 3) I'm thinking of the best names for the new columns.  The 'w' after each
> >    character, what does it mean?  I'm thinking of changing it so 's' or 'S'
> 
> 'Warning'.  I was desperately seeking something that sorta made some kinda
> sense ;-)  Better names gladly accepted!
> 
> >    for state.  Probably making the column longer, such as Dstate, Nstate,
> >    etc would be best and not collide with any other names.
> 
> I was thinking of it as warning rather than state, but I can
> go with state too.  One thing I think I'd rather do is put them
> in such a way that they will tend to sort together, as in StateD,
> StateN (or maybe State_D, State_N), etc...  (or, if you go the
> direction I was going, Warnings_N).  Comments?

Good idea.  Let's leave it with State_, as it's more general than
Warnings_ and a little shorter too.


> 
> > 4) Do you have orcallator.cfg.in patch to plot the new data?
> 
> I've hacked something into my cfg file, but I want to improve it a bit
> first - the text on the left margin does not fit...


OK.


> 
> > 5) Do you have sample plots and a write up that can go into
> >
> >    http://www.orcaware.com/orca/docs/orcallator.html
> 
> Can do (assuming I have time before you need it ;-)


There's no rush here.


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> rc
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