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Help: what each analyzer log file is (nlp-engine#547) - #233

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Adds a Log files section to VisualText_Basics/Structure_of_Analyzer_Projects.md, answering the questions in VisualText/nlp-engine#547:

  • logs/: building the analyzer: make_ana.log (pass-file errors), cgerr.log (KB loading), dbg.log (timings for parsing the analyzer's rule files), file.log (inputs analyzed).
  • input/<file>_log/: analyzing one file: err.log (shown as squiggles by the extension), dbg.log (analysis pass timings, slowest ranked), final.tree, per-pass trees with -DEV, missing-words.log, plus files the analyzer writes.
  • output/: startup: init.log (optional user.dll), and dbg.log/def.log, which are opened but always empty.

Explains why there are two dbg.log files with different contents, and that none of the logs grows across runs. Every row was checked against real default and -DEV runs on engine 4.2.11. No engine dependency, so it can merge any time.

check-help-docs.ps1: 0 broken links.

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Structure_of_Analyzer_Projects gains a Log files section: logs/ holds the
analyzer build (make_ana, cgerr, the rule-file parse timings in dbg.log,
file.log), input/<file>_log/ holds each input's err.log, analysis timings,
trees and missing-words.log, and output/ holds startup files, two of them
always empty. Explains why there are two dbg.log files with different
contents. Checked against real default and -DEV runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ddehilster merged commit ae0289c into VisualText:main Oct 13, 2026
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