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From: BOL@HWALHW50.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Reading a file in BACKWARD direction.
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Date: 26 May 88 08:15:00 GMT
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    Recently  I saw a posting  of somebody in INFO-VAX  writing a TAIL
    program   for  VMS.  (reading  a   file  in  backward  direction).

    I  have written  such a  program for  VMS that  does not  read the
    entire  file but really starts at the fileend with reading. So you
    can  easy read very  large files. Further  it can handle  a lot of
    VMS-filetypes.  The  program  is  written  in  C. Everybody who is
    interested  in this  program or  has any  ideas to  distribute the
    .EXE-file, please drop a mail to

                Kees Bol                  BOL@HWALHW50.bitnet
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