Re: [MacPerl] How to simulate a call to 'tail' in MacPerl

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 08.55 -0500 1999.02.01, Christian Brechbuehler wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:11:14 -0500, Stˇphane Jose wrote:
>
>>I am using the following script to read the last line from a log file.
>>This works fine under Unix but I don't know how to simulate the call to
>>'tail' on a Mac with MacPerl.
>
>Just found out: see CPAN.
>
>Module id = File::Tail
>    DESCRIPTION  A more efficient tail -f
>    CPAN_USERID  MGRABNAR (Matija Grabnar <matija.grabnar@arnes.si>)
>    CPAN_VERSION 0.90
>    CPAN_FILE    MGRABNAR/File-Tail-0.90.tar.gz
>    DSLI_STATUS  bdpO (beta,developer,perl,object-oriented)
>    INST_FILE    (not installed)

Nope.

    cpan> readme File::Tail

...

Currently this package requires Time::HiRes, because it often needs to sleep
for less than one second. (I don't beleive one should busy wait on a file
just because it gets more than one line/second).

...

Of course, that just means someone needs to port Time::HiRes.  :)

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