RE: Question Re: Piping and Redirection

Andy

You get the same thing by butting a 'b' in the control field and repeatedly
pressing ENTER.

Also in SQL but not in the output from Query/400.

Also in spooled files, after enough records have been written (and some
other conditions I haven't worried about).

Regards
Vern

At 06:58 AM 11/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:

James,

A small point, but I remember doing a DSPPFM on a file which was having
records added.  By positioning to the end of file, then rolling up and
back down, the new records were displayed as they were added.

I don't have a way to test if this behavior is present on current
systems, but I know that it used to be there.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of James Rich
> Subject: Re: Question Re: Piping and Redirection
>
> On Unix you can do:
>
> tail -f /the/file/you/want/to/watch
>
> this works on binary or any type of file.  It just prints on the
screen
> the "tail" end of the file.  The '-f' makes new entries to the print
to
> the screen as they happen.  There is no way to do this on the AS/400.
> You
> can use DSPPFM and go to the bottom, then exit, then do it again, etc.
> But it is not the same ability.  If the AS/400 let cat, tail, etc.
work
> like they do on other systems then what I describe above would become
a
> possibilty.
>
> James Rich