Following Suzanna's letter, and a brief exchange with Jean, I have changed
messubs.c so that if messdump() can not open the requested logfile then it
writes to stderr, starting with a message of complaint about failing to
open the file. Here is the diff to my previous version of messubs.c:
164,169c164,166
< { dumpfil = stderr ;
< fprintf (stderr, "\n** Can't open log file %s - using stderr **\n",
< messdumpfilename) ;
< }
< else
< fprintf (dumpfil,"\n%s %s\n", timeStamp(), dateStamp()) ;
---
> messcrash ("Can't open dump file %s", messdumpfilename) ;
>> fprintf (dumpfil,"\n%s %s\n", timeStamp(), dateStamp()) ;
Richard