converting old logs - northern-bites/nbites GitHub Wiki

There are a few types of legacy logs. First are the logs from the old c++/qt tool, which contain many packed images or protobufs in one file. Typical names for these logs are "bottom.log" and "top.log". This is the format that is understood by the old tool and used for creating color tables.

New java-friendly logs with the .nblog extension also come in a few flavors. Logs made before the 2015 US Open may be nbtool4 or nbtool5 logs. The current version of nblog is nbtool6 (tool version 6) which will be compatible with all tool releases moving forward.

There are command line tools for converting between these formats in nbtool.term. nbtool version 6 and later will automatically try to convert and display nbtool5 logs, though it will not write the converted log to filesystem unless asked.