add an RBN line to progress

[spider.git] / perl / watchdbg

diff --git a/perl/watchdbg b/perl/watchdbg
index 3297941388ba5efecedad920b7f8bfcee3f6285b..8d9551d3db9e1cb366defc6186484a19a741964c 100755 (executable)
--- a/perl/watchdbg
+++ b/perl/watchdbg
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # examples:-
 # 
 #   watchdbg g1tlh       # watch everything g1tlh does
-#   watchdbg 2 PCPROT       # watch all PCPROT messages + up to 2 lines before
+#   watchdbg -2 PCPROT       # watch all PCPROT messages + up to 2 lines before
 #   watchdbg gb7baa gb7djk   # watch the conversation between BAA and DJK 
 #
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ my @prev;
 # seek to end of file
 $fh->seek(0, 2);
 for (;;) {
-       my $line = <$fh>;
+       my $line = $fh->getline;
        if ($line) {
                if ($exp) {
                        push @prev, $line;
@@ -79,10 +79,8 @@ sub printit
                chomp $line;
                $line =~ s/([\x00-\x1f\x7f-\xff])/sprintf("\\x%02X", ord($1))/eg; 
                my ($t, $l) =  split /\^/, $line, 2;
-               my ($sec,$min,$hour) = gmtime((defined $t) ? $t : time);
-               my $buf = sprintf "%02d:%02d:%02d", $hour, $min, $sec;
-               
-               print $buf, ' ', $l, "\n"; 
+               $t = time unless defined $t;
+               printf "%02d:%02d:%02d %s\n", (gmtime($t))[2,1,0], $l; 
        }
 }
 exit(0);