Thank you drieux.

The suggestion from your link handles it (I've made minor modifications)!

You're right. Checking sizes is a good idea.


Ciao,

BrunoF

-----Original Message-----
From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Terça-feira, 2 de Abril de 2002 13:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Better "tail -f"



On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 04:30 , Bruno Figueira wrote:

> However, if another program removes (all) lines from the file referenced 
> by
> FH, perl looses the trailing (for a undetermined time). How do I improve
> this code to understand the file was changed?

I misread your problem - then ran into it...
used the p2 code from yesterday in p2>filename
and it made:

http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/lang/Perl/Beginners/file_change_while_taili
ng.txt

act stoopid - till I put the spare subroutine into reset
to begining....

ciao
drieux

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