Windows version of the UNIX 'tail -f' command.

Tail for Win32 is used to monitor changes to files; displaying the changed lines in realtime. This makes Tail ideal for watching log files.

Tail has a plugin architecture, which allows notifications to occur when certain keywords are detected in monitored files. At the moment a MAPI plugin is available, and work is in progress on an SMTP version.

Features

Watch multiple files in realtime

Detect keyword matches, and highlight occurences

Send mail notifications on keyword matches by SMTP or MAPI

Plugin architecture allows you to write specialised handlers

Can process files of any size on all types of drive (local or networked)