[alt.sources.wanted] tail

moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) (12/17/89)

falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:
>>I am looking for a program that will cat a file backwards.
>The unix tail(1) command will do it.

For small values of "it". Remember that the Unix tail command has a
fixed upper limit on the size of file it will work on. (On most BSD
systems , this limit is 32K, on SysV, it is 4K)