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[[Category:Cumulus Files]]Please see [[Standard log files]], [[Extra Sensor Files]], [[Air_Link_Log.txt]], [[Month.ini]], or [[Monthlyalltime.ini]], as relevant.
Please be aware that all of the above links lead to documentation about files that may be described as ''monthly log files'' when reading individual Cumulus forum and wiki references.
The original Steve Loft terminology for each of the log files, when they were first introduced in his original Cumulus software has been adopted throughout the documentation, to avoid possible future confusion for those looking at older articles in this wiki or oldest posts on the forum. It is probable that newcomers to Cumulus will prefer to use the terminology used in this documentation, where '''files are named based on their content'''.
=Enhancement never implemented=
Steve Loft was several times asked if he could change the design of his software and what it stored in[[Standard log files]], [[Extra Sensor Files]] and the other files.
All these files currently periodically store spot readings. Some of the competition in weather software, periodically store the highest and lowest since the previous line was stored.
One advantage of the alternative approach is that you never lose any extremes. Another advantage is the alternative allows people to report extremes for parts of days. For example, some people wanted 9 am to 9 pm reported separately to night time extremes, in other nations, the dividing time was 3 pm not 9 pm.
Steve Loft would respond he had made many design decisions that were not ideal, but the software was based on his own needs. If people wanted drastic changes, they should do what he had done, and write software that did what suited them.
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