[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-07-18 14:17, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 ?

Not sure why you think that would be an unsurmountable problem...

   Johnny