Try using POE, the following code and other goodies are available at http://poe.perl.org in the POE_Cookbook directory under Watching_Logs.

POE is arrow that is definitely worth the effor of learning IMHO. But this code should get you tail functionality on threaded AS :0) 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# http://poe.perl.org/?POE_Cookbook/Watching_Logs

use POE qw/Wheel::FollowTail/;
use strict;

$| = 1;

my $filename = $ARGV[0];

die "Usage: $0 <filename>\n"                     unless $filename;
die "$0: $filename: No such file or directory\n" unless -e $filename;
die "$0: $filename: Permission denied\n"         unless -r $filename;

POE::Session->create
  ( inline_states =>
      { _start => sub { $_[HEAP]->{wheel} =
              POE::Wheel::FollowTail->new(
                Filename   => $_[ARG0],
                InputEvent => 'got_line',
                ErrorEvent => 'got_error',
                SeekBack   => 1024,
              );
            $_[HEAP]->{first} = 0;
        },
        got_line => sub { print "$_[ARG0]\n" if $_[HEAP]->{first}++ },
        got_error => sub { warn "$_[ARG0]\n" },
      },
    args => [$filename],
  );

$poe_kernel->run();

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Happy Thanksgiving!
JamesNC

In reply to Re: is File::Tail usable on Windows ? by JamesNC
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