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Re: tail problems on Win32
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: tail problems on Win32 |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:02:39 +0200 (IST) |
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, DepecheModeFan wrote:
> I'm using "tail -f" on a Win32 machine to parse the IIS log. This log
> is constantly growing (I'm making it grow by accessing the server), but
> tail -f doesn't nearly produce the same results as the linux version of
> this file. On a RedHat 7.2 machine, I smbmount the disk and "tail -f
> ex030129.log", this tail output is continually growing (as I want to
> see it), versus the Win32 which basically stops.
>
> If I leave the Win32 version running, it will update the screen, but
> will definitely not update as frequently/fast as the linux version of
> tail does.
First, please tell what port of `tail' do you use. Where did you get the
binary, or with what development tools did you compile it?