Intro
Nothing can be better than something. Especially in batch mode. Especially when calling OpticksBatch a lot. And especially when logging every line of output to a file. Opticks has provided a "brief" command-line argument to OpticksBatch for quite some time. But it was still too much. Users wanted less. So we gave it to them. In Opticks 4.8.0, you can now specify "verybrief". And it is very, very brief. You only get startup, shutdown, warning, and error messages. Here is a screenshot (click on it for a larger image):
If you are curious about the software used in that screenshot, I am using a free and open source program called Console. I use it primarily because it has tabs. I like tabs. And I like open source software. If it's free, it's for me!