[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Chris Townley]

On 15/07/2023 02:33, gah4 wrote:
> 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.
> 

Sorry, I should have said TYPE/TAIL/CONTINUOUS which works with some 
caveats on the file

-- 
Chris