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From: greendog@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Unix like 'tail -f'
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.171658.27171@max.physics.sunysb.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 91 17:16:58 GMT
References: <1991Jan17.034047.18447@eecs.wsu.edu> <685@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: greendog@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D Fischer)
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook
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In article <685@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes:
>In article <1991Jan17.034047.18447@eecs.wsu.edu> rnelson@yoda.UUCP (Roger Nelson - Grad Student) writes:
>>Does there exist a UNIX like tail utility?  
>>Could similar functionality be achieved using something like Matt Dillon's
>>fifodev (which I intend to look at)?
>
>The functionality of 'tail' can be achieved quite easily.
>[etc...]
>
Tail is included in SKsh (Amgia PD version of unix's ksh), however, it
does not allow 'tail -f'...  To me it seems almost impossible to
implement this on the Amiga without the cooperation of the program
writing to the file.

Mike

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