+/* This routine sends a class MOIRA zephyrgram of specified instance
+ * and logs to a special logfile the message passed to it via msg
+ * and args in printf format. *** It expects the global variable
+ * whoami to be defined and contain the name of the calling program.
+ * It's a kludge that it takes a max of 8 arguments in a way that
+ * isn't necessarily portable, but varargs doesn't work here and we
+ * don't have vsprintf().
+ */
+
+void critical_alert(instance, msg, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4,
+ arg5, arg6, arg7, arg8)