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Re: tail and win file handling


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@cygwin.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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