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I've found a few discussions about a write_file type function that's available in data stage, but most are old and end with "just use log()".

Has any change occurred in this regard?

I find it incredibly useful while debugging mods to look at the data.raw dump, but it makes the log file very large and unweildy.

Even something simple like a "spamlog()" command to write to a 2nd log file would be useful if an equivilent to write_file is too hard.

Any suggestions?

moon69 wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:21 pm Has any change occurred in this regard?

Nope.

Not sure if useful (could help with some terminal tricks?), but there's also lua's print()... (not to be confused with game.print(), which writes to the in-game console !)

BlueTemplar wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:55 pm Not sure if useful (could help with some terminal tricks?), but there's also lua's print()... (not to be confused with game.print(), which writes to the in-game console !)

Subject: Write to file in data stage

Yes, can't you print to terminal (or is it stdout ?) while the game is starting up ?

BlueTemplar wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2019 5:33 pm Yes, can't you print to terminal (or is it stdout ?) while the game is starting up ?

I believe you are correct. print() prints to stdout, whereas log() prints to log (which also prints to stdout in the sense that the factorio logging is printed to stdout by default).

I am disappointed to find out the only write_file routine, game.write_file(), is only available in the control phase.