From d7d3fbc3a31dbba4de1737244f39945608e5a0ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 20:48:24 -0600
Subject: more or less functional draft

---
 output.go | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 output.go

(limited to 'output.go')

diff --git a/output.go b/output.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8077332
--- /dev/null
+++ b/output.go
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package log
+
+import 	(
+	"os"
+	golanglog "log"
+)
+
+// start writing all the logging to a tmp file
+func SetTmp() {
+	f, err := os.OpenFile("/tmp/guilogfile", os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREATE | os.O_APPEND, 0666)
+	if err != nil {
+		golanglog.Fatalf("error opening file: %v", err)
+	}
+	// hmm. is there a trick here or must this be in main()
+	// defer f.Close()
+
+	golanglog.SetOutput(f)
+	golanglog.Println("This is a test log entry")
+}
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