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From: "Matthew Smith" <matts AT bluesguitar DOT org>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Cc: "Hermann Angstl" <hal AT camline DOT com>
References: <3BC683FA DOT 8D051F2C AT camline DOT com>
Subject: Re: tail -f on NT does not work (with mapped drives)
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:06:16 -0500
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You have to provide us with a little more information than this.  What
version of cygwin are you using? You say that tail -f is "not working
properly", what exactly does that mean? Provide us with as much detail as
you can.

-Matt Smith


> Hi,
>
> I am running the Cygwin port of the "tail" command (from the GNU
> textutils-2.0) on Windows NT 4.0.
>
> It seems that "tail -f" is not working properly on mapped drives (i
> mapped a linux drive via samba - also tried it with a NFS mounted
> drive).
>
> best regards,
> Hermann Angstl



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