[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

gah4 gah4 at u.washington.edu
Fri Jul 14 21:33:54 EDT 2023


On Friday, July 14, 2023 at 4:36:41 PM UTC-7, Chris Townley wrote:

(snip, I wrote)

> > Reminds me of, years ago, porting gnu-utils to OS/2 and finding that 
> > tail -f works. I don't know if tail -f is supposed to work on VMS, though. 

tail -f reads the end of a file, then waits and checks to see if it got bigger.
That is, if the EOF went away.

Not all file system, I suspect, can do that.







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