anchor.diff:      false-> io:fwrite(FD," ~p~n",[Term])
     end.
   
  +send_to_wd(Term) ->
  +  try
  +    ?MODULE ! Term,
  +    ok
  +  catch 
  +    error:badarg   -> {error,watchdog_not_started};
  +    _:R            -> {error,R}
  +  end.
   %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
   expand_recs(List) when is_list(List) -> [expand_recs(L)||L<-List];
   expand_recs(Tup) when is_tuple(Tup) -> 
  
positive.code:   end.
  
  stop() -> 
    try ?MODULE ! stop
    catch _:_ -> ok
    end.
  
  %% E.g:  watchdog:add_send_subscriber(tcp,"localhost",56669,"I'm a Cookie").
  %% it's possible to add the same subscriber twice. this is a bug.
  add_send_subscriber(Proto,Host,Port,PassPhrase) ->
    try {ok,{hostent,Host,[],inet,4,_}} = inet:gethostbyname(Host),
        ?MODULE ! {add_subscriber,mk_send(Proto,Host,Port,PassPhrase)},
        ok
    catch 
      error:{badmatch,{ok,{hostent,G,[W],inet,4,_}}} -> {error,{badhost,W,G}};
      _:R -> {error,R}
    end.
  
  add_log_subscriber() ->
  
negative.code: 
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
  mk_send(Where) ->
    fun(Chunk) ->
        try Where ! Chunk
        catch _:_ -> ok
        end
    end.
  
  mk_send(tcp,Name,Port,Cookie) ->
    ConnOpts = [{send_timeout,100},{active,false},{packet,4},binary],
    ConnTimeout =  100,
  