[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-07-18, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 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...
>

At what point did I say that ?

I'm interested if you can use TYPE/TAIL/CONTINUOUS on files open for
write these days.

Simon.

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