event logger output

Is there any way to get event log output to something easier to read and scan through, like one event per line starting with the current time and machine name in a flat text file like the way Unix does it?
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Don't think there is, but it's easy to select your columns priority - so if you click on the computer's tab, all of them will appear in alphabetical order and group them.
I find that easier for me :o)
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Is there any way to get event log output to something easier to read and scan through, like one event per line starting with the current time and machine name in a flat text file like the way Unix does it?
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Top posting breaks the context of conversation, please learn to quote. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting
Zack Whittaker wrote:

Don't think there is, but it's easy to select your columns priority - so if you click on the computer's tab, all of them will appear in alphabetical order and group them.

I just want to forgo using Event Viewer entirely. It utterly sucks for trying to view logs, and there's nothing available to make dealing with these logs any easier. At least if Windows used the same log output format every other operating system on the planet uses, Windows users would be able to use their tools for doing stuff like emailing all but the mundane log entries on an hourly basis, etc.
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Top posting breaks the context of conversation, please learn to quote. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting

So is hijacking a thread with a completely unrelated topic.

Noozer wrote:

"Paul Johnson" wrote in message Top posting breaks the context of conversation, please learn to quote. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting
So is hijacking a thread with a completely unrelated topic.

Get a news reader that shows threads and you will plainly see that I did not hijack a thread.
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Noozer wrote:
"Paul Johnson" wrote in message Top posting breaks the context of conversation, please learn to quote. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting
So is hijacking a thread with a completely unrelated topic.
Get a news reader that shows threads and you will plainly see that I did not hijack a thread.

Ya, you did... You used it to rant about newsgroup posting ediquette.

Noozer wrote:

"Paul Johnson" wrote in message Noozer wrote:
"Paul Johnson" wrote in message Top posting breaks the context of conversation, please learn to quote. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting
So is hijacking a thread with a completely unrelated topic.
Get a news reader that shows threads and you will plainly see that I did not hijack a thread.
Ya, you did... You used it to rant about newsgroup posting ediquette.

If that's what you want to call "Hi-jacking," I hijacked myself...
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Stop bickering you two! You're like... boys with toys!
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Noozer wrote:
"Paul Johnson" wrote in message Noozer wrote:
"Paul Johnson" wrote in message Top posting breaks the context of conversation, please learn to quote. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting
So is hijacking a thread with a completely unrelated topic.
Get a news reader that shows threads and you will plainly see that I did not hijack a thread.
Ya, you did... You used it to rant about newsgroup posting ediquette.
If that's what you want to call "Hi-jacking," I hijacked myself...
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