this code for windows

[Idezo]

hello

I have this in a tcl script:

switch $machtype {
"linux" { set newsfile [open "| tail -n $npcl news_$chan.txt" "r+"] }
"solaris" { set newsfile [open "| tail -$npcl news_$chan.txt" "r+"] }
}

But what is it for windows?
Can some one help me with this?

[Dizzle]

dont know if anyone know's how too script windows, this is a TCL scripting forum

[De Kus]

you can't directly use open or exec with windrop, at least its not known to me.
however, there is a possible workaround: http://forum.egghelp.org/viewtopic.php?t=9376
Note: its a workaround, not a solution!

[Galadhrim]

try "win" or "win32". It should be the same as linux exept for the dir separator "/" that is "\".

[De Kus]

theoretically he could use the linux variant (refer:)

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C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\De Kus>tail --help
Usage: tail [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Print the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output.
With more than one FILE, precede each with a header giving the file name.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
      --retry              keep trying to open a file even if it is
                           inaccessible when tail starts or if it becomes
                           inaccessible later; useful when following by name,
                           i.e., with --follow=name
  -c, --bytes=N            output the last N bytes
  -f, --follow[={name|descriptor}]
                           output appended data as the file grows;
                           -f, --follow, and --follow=descriptor are
                           equivalent
  -F                       same as --follow=name --retry
  -n, --lines=N            output the last N lines, instead of the last 10
      --max-unchanged-stats=N
                           with --follow=name, reopen a FILE which has not
                           changed size after N (default 5) iterations
                           to see if it has been unlinked or renamed
                           (this is the usual case of rotated log files)
      --pid=PID            with -f, terminate after process ID, PID dies
  -q, --quiet, --silent    never output headers giving file names
  -s, --sleep-interval=S   with -f, sleep for approximately S seconds
                           (default 1.0) between iterations.
  -v, --verbose            always output headers giving file names
      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines) is a `+',
print beginning with the Nth item from the start of each file, otherwise,
print the last N items in the file.  N may have a multiplier suffix:
b 512, k 1024, m 1024*1024.

With --follow (-f), tail defaults to following the file descriptor, which
means that even if a tail'ed file is renamed, tail will continue to track
its end.  This default behavior is not desirable when you really want to
track the actual name of the file, not the file descriptor (e.g., log
rotation).  Use --follow=name in that case.  That causes tail to track the
named file by reopening it periodically to see if it has been removed and
recreated by some other program.

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

This would require following:
- Cygwin is installed
- Cygwin /bin directory is in windows "path" variable
- Eggdrop would be able to use TCL exec or open on Cygwin

so even if you fullfill the first 2 steps (the second steop could of course be replaced with giving a full path to tail.exe), you will still have to get around this smal bug. This no TCL bug, this is just a bug with Eggdrop under Cygwin (it however could be related to specific TCL versions, but there are not many TCL builds avaible to be used with Eggdrop under win32).