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

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 14.54 -0500 1999.02.01, Stˇphane Jose wrote:
>Based on the comments I received, I came up with the following script.
>It seems rather efficient. Would anyone like to propose ways to improve
>this script or comment on its performance?

Actually, that is basically what I would have done, had I needed to make it
more efficient.  Read one byte at a time backwards from the end until you
hit a newline.

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