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From: laredo@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Alain Laredo)
Subject: Re: Logging in x11
Message-ID: <1990Mar1.161024.3067@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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Date: 1 Mar 90 21:10:24 GMT
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I wrote

>   I am using the logging facility to store the output of several
>processes that are running in parallel. Therefore X11 creates
>as many files as machines I am using, all the files with a format
>of XtermLog.a9999, only the last four digits vary from file to file.
>Is there an easy way to associate each machine with its correspondent
>log file? do those numbers have some meaning?

the four digits correspond to the last four digits of the xterm process
running on that particular machine. There might be collisions, I don't
know how they are handled. 
thanks to Tim Brecht for the hint.

Jim.