Re: tail problems on Win32

[Eli Zaretskii]

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?