I have been trying to use this module to do a tail -f on a windows logfile. I had some perl code to do it that I posted before and below, but it was reading the whole file and thus using too much memory. I tried ppm to load File::Tail and it looks for File::HiRes, yet the PM goes in Time::HiRes. I have struggled for hours trying to get this PM loaded.
I am ready to pay someone to help me.
I just need an efficient way to that won't use alot of memory to 'tail -f' a large windows file. That is all.

perl somescript.pl thefile > outputfile

I have this 
$firstrun = 1;
while(1) {
    if ( -s $file ) {
    sleep 1;
open(TF,$file) || next ;
seek(TF,0,0);
@lines=<TF>;
my $curpos=tell(TF);
close(TF);
    if ( $firstrun < 1 ){
    foreach $lyne (@lines){
        printf $lyne;    
    }
    }
sleep 1;
$firstrun = 0;
while(-s $file ) {
  open(TF,$file) || last ;
  seek(TF,$curpos,0);
  @lines=<TF>;
  $curpos = tell(TF);
  last if ((stat(_))[7] < $curpos);
    foreach $lyne (@lines){
    printf $lyne;    
    }    
  close(TF);
  sleep 1;
}
}
else
    { sleep 5; }
}

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but it is a memory hog. Plus, sometimes I am not allowed to install PMs like File::Tail.
I like this offered by another Monk, but I am not skilled enough (see above) to turn it into efficient code. 
while (1) {
    stat the file
    if size of file changed since last time {
        open file
        seek to previous EOF
        print file contents until EOF
        save EOF position for next time
        close the file
    }

    sleep for x seconds
}

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Can anyone help with making the above not read through the whole file, possibly becoming more memory efficient ?
Thanks

In reply to File::Tail on win32 by perlAffen

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