Format: Lo[g] [filename or close]Produces command files by copying keyboard input to a file. This log file can then be read in again as a command file, or it can be edited and elaborated first. This is a very useful way to get started creating command files.
All the commands typed in at the keyboard are copied into the file with the name specified, until the command is reissued with the filename CLOSE (which cannot be abbreviated). This provides a very useful record of the commands typed in during a session. It would then be possible to repeat exactly the same sequence of commands on another occasion just by using the INPUT command to read in the commands from the log file. Alternatively the file can be adjusted with a text editor before being read in again.
Examples:
Enter command - log stat0927.logCopies all commands into stat0927.log.
Enter command - log closeCloses file so that no further commands will be copied. Like the OUTPUT command, LOG writes onto the end of a pre-existing file.