Some ideas

[jbb]

What's the best way to submit changes?

I've checked out the cvs version from sourceforce and made some updates to that. I need to make a diff and submit that to this forum?

What's the best way to do that? To check out a copy of the source, make another local copy and work on the copy, and then make a diff between my two versions? Or is there a simpler way?

Finally I think me diffs might break because I've removed ^M from the end of a lot of lines (working mostly on linux). Any ideas how to work with that?

What I've done so far is spent a bit of time making some of the output prints more consistent in their format, and mark them with a severity code (so the general information and debug prints can be separated from serious errors) and made a function to output them with a bit more consistency than the current random mix of cout and printfs. I've also added fairly comments to the top of a few of the functions explaining what they do as I figured it out... I thought that might be useful.

Basically I've only spent an hour or two looking at it so won't be offended if you say thanks but this isn't what we need but wanted to see if this was useful before doing much more... When I understand how it works I should be able to make more substantial additions.

Hopefully I could post something on about saturday...