Ihistory

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Name

Ihistory - append a history line in the BIFF image text field

Syntax

 #include <xite/biff.h>

 BiffStatus Ihistory( IMAGE i, char* progname,
    char* comment );

Description

Append a history line in the text field of image i. The history line will consist of a) Date and time of calling this routine followed by a space, b) the progname parameter followed by a space, c) the comment parameter.

The name of the application should be given as progname, typically argv[0]. Other arguments to the application telling what has been done to the image could be specified in the comment parameter. One possibility is to use the text returned by the argvOptions(3) function as the comment parameter.

Character position will be left at end of text.

Restrictions

i must be initialized.

See also

argvOptions(3), Iappend_line(5), biffinfo(1)

Return value

status

Author

Tor Lønnestad, BLAB, Ifi, UiO