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st: RE: Displaying text without displaying the display text


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Displaying text without displaying the display text
Date   Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:10:56 +0100

Sayer, Bryan
>
> Is there an option to get -display- (or even something
> else) to display a
> string of text WITHOUT also displaying the display statement?
>
> That is, I want something like a title.  I want
>
> This is a string of text
>
> to show up in my log, without having
>
> . display "This is a string of text"
> This is a string of text
>

Use comments, prefixed by *.

. log using bryan.log
----------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------
       log:  C:\whatever\wherever\bryan.log
  log type:  text
 opened on:   4 Apr 2003, 17:08:16

. * Bryan Sayer loves svy
. log close
       log:  C:\whatever\wherever\bryan.log
  log type:  text
 closed on:   4 Apr 2003, 17:08:32
----------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------

. type bryan.log
----------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------
       log:  C:\whatever\wherever\bryan.log
  log type:  text
 opened on:   4 Apr 2003, 17:08:16

. * Bryan Sayer loves svy
. log close
       log:  C:\whatever\wherever\bryan.log
  log type:  text
 closed on:   4 Apr 2003, 17:08:32
----------------------------------------

Nick
[email protected]

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