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Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:08:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: C Wells <s2audi AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: tail and win file handling
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I can't change the application unfortunately, if I
could I'd have it only log interesting stuff rather
than the garbage it does.

Is it worth trying maybe to link the file and tail the
link ? or mess with a tee command ??

--- Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> re tail and win file handles.

> Your going to have to use a different file name. 
> Windows doesn't 
> support the same semantics in this case.  The
> emulation Cygwin provides
> is as close as you're going to get (which ain't that
> close but... ;-) ).
> 


	
		
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