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| author | yaworsky <yaworsky> | 2005-11-17 04:31:14 +0000 |
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| committer | yaworsky <yaworsky> | 2005-11-17 04:31:14 +0000 |
| commit | 38f805ec182d708bcf42f831207559812c476b1f (patch) | |
| tree | 0f43ef3fde68bc22ef094b7fc314f3de8ea79dcd /doc | |
| parent | 4b49ba1597bc6aad77d56895d2eada4228e4a5b9 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/src/intro.xml b/doc/src/intro.xml index 0afbf96..7c3d104 100644 --- a/doc/src/intro.xml +++ b/doc/src/intro.xml @@ -1,38 +1,66 @@ <section> <title>What's this</title> <para> -This is an implementation of syslog daemon and client for native win32 platform. -It complies to <ulink url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3164.txt">RFC 3164</ulink>, -<quote>The BSD Syslog Protocol</quote>. +This is another syslog for windows, it includes daemon and client. +Features: + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para> +<ulink url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3164.txt">RFC 3164</ulink>-compliant; + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> +high performance; + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> +message forwarding; + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> +log rotation; + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> +completely open-source. + </para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> </para> </section> <section> <title>What for</title> <para> -Maybe you are: +Primarily it was written for myself to help to create portable software. +So if you are: <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para> -porting existing UNIX software to native win32 platform; +porting existing UNIX software to native win32 platform, </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> -writing portable software; +writing portable software, </para> </listitem> <listitem> <para> -writing pure windows software but understanding that EventLog sucks and looking for an alternative. +writing pure windows software but understanding that EventLog sucks and looking for an alternative </para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> -I hope that in any of these cases this stuff will be useful for you. +then I hope that this stuff will be useful for you too. </para> <para> Of course, you may just use the daemon as the network message collector. -But in this case you better look at UNIX. +But I think that any UNIX alternative is much better. +Not because this stuff is not so good (I hope), just because the underlying system is better. </para> </section> |