From: "Rafael García" <rafael AT geninfor DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: reading a currently writting file
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:14:18 +0100
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I have a program that write some information about its work in a LOG file.
When it ends execution I can open it to know what was happening.

But it would be nice if I could read it meanwhile running. If I try to open
the file for reading from another Windows DOS box, fopen() fails.

Is it possible to do?

I suspect it must be simpler under Unix, because of the pipes stuff. But I
don't know if I could use something equivalent with Windows.

Thank you.