Tail for Win32 Reviews

nice project thanks!

I opened a log file as described in the readme.txt expecting that it would tail this file - that is allow you to see the file change. It simply doesn't work - well not for me on a Win7 machine. The only way you can get it to update is by opening the log file in notepad - then this WinTail program updates! This is my experience and therefore makes this program worst than useless since I had to spend time finding out that it does less than periodically opening in notepad.

Great software! But i miss a search function!

I could open a 13 GB text file with this tool. Nice!

very bad looking app, but indeed useful, overall 4.0

Anyone know where the documentation is for this app. It works reasonably well, is fast to display changes to logs, however, it is a bit flaky. Can't save workspace, what is a non-workspace vs a workspace. Why can't I add files to "workspace". Why can't I save workspaces, this is particularlly annoying because every time you start it up, you have to re-add all your logs even though there is a setting to load on open. Anyone know where the docs are?

The update speed is tragic (take about 30+ seconds to notice any changes) and the GUI could use some modernizing.

Dont use it ! Virus contained in this project

The program compares itself to tail for unix, except that unix's tail is very fast to update. This program decides to once in a blue moon, and there's no way to force it it seems.

Works like a charm. Will the code author please get in touch with me as I would like to license the code and build it into my desktop app dashboard for log file viewing. (rtischer@hiveware.com).

Tailforwin32 works wonderful.

There's not much such useful tools like this. Thanks to Author :-). Ja***z Delta.

very helpfull program !!!

Great utility but the pause doesn't work. May sound trivial but if you see a hit on a keyword what's the next thing you want to do? Scroll back and look at the entire line. You can't do that if you're watching something like logs from a busy mail server. Is this a dead project?

Pros: It works, doesn't need to be installed and uses windows instead of the command line. Cons: Pausing and workspaces don't work.

There hasn't been a release in donkeys years, but it's still a useful tool. What do you get over a command line tail you might ask? Well mainly color highlighting, but also it behaves like a normal window that can be resized unlike a windows command prompt. I go though periods of using it a lot.

No further development? I think https://sourceforge.net/projects/wintail2/ is a better choice for file monitor.