[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-07-15, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
>

Does that work these days when the file is still open for write by
another user ?

Simon.

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