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Readme for analog 4.01

Starting to use analog under OS/2

When you've downloaded analog, and either you or your browser has unzipped it, you will find in the analog directory a configuration file called analog.cfg and the analog executable itself, as well as the Readme, the Licence (which you must read and agree to before using analog) and a couple of other files. You can run analog by just typing analog. It should produce an output file called Report.html. For help in interpreting the output, see What the results mean.
You can configure analog by putting commands in the configuration file, analog.cfg. One command you will need straight away is
LOGFILE logfilename    # to set where your logfile lives
You need to use \ not / as the directory separator in the logfile name. The logfile must be stored locally -- analog won't use FTP or HTTP to fetch it from the internet. There's a sample logfile supplied with the program.

There's a list of basic commands later in the Readme. Also there are a few to get you started in the configuration file already, but there are lots of others available. You can read about all the commands in the section on customising analog.

There is one other way to give options to analog, via command line arguments, given on the command line after the program name. These are just shortcuts for configuration file commands.

If you want to compile your own version of analog (it's written in C), or just to read the source code, it's available from the analog home page. (It's the same source code for all versions). There are instructions about compiling on another page.


Stephen Turner
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