RE: Question Re: Piping and Redirection

Hi, Andy:

One difference between tail and this DSPPFM capability is that with tail,
you do not need to do anything in order for the new lines to be displayed.
With DSPPFM you have to manually roll the display.

HTH
Dennis






"Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@attbi.com>@midrange.com on 11/20/2002
06:58:00 AM

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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.
>