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To: mutiny AT hardlink DOT com
Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
References: <Pine DOT SOL DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 970924215348 DOT 18060A-100000 AT hornet>
Message-Id: <AAy-XAqeV7@mpak.convey.ru>
Organization: International Brownian Movement
From: "-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 97 11:24:28 +0300
Subject: Re: tail dos implementation?
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nuqneH,

> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:55:04 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Mutiny <mutiny AT hardlink DOT com>
> X-Sender: mutiny AT hornet
> To: -= ArkanoiD =- <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
> cc: mjs AT prg DOT hannover DOT sgh-net DOT de, opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: tail dos implementation?

[dd]

> What he probably wants to do is monitor a file (ala /var/syslog in linux)
> for changes but I doubt they would because DOS doesn't multitask like
> Linux does, and never will.

So people do not implement it just because they think so? Too bad :(.
btw Concurrent DOS exists for years and there are things like Desqview etc -
better than nothing,a kind of multitasking... It is not wise to think
"DOS can not multitask so there is no need in -f flag".

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