From: Patrick Gundlach <clr1.10.randomuser@...>
Date: 2004-05-20T22:03:57+09:00
Subject: Re: seraching backward in files

"Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@noaa.gov> writes:

> if you are on linux you might want to simply 
>
>   tac = IO.popen "tac #{ path }"
>
>   # process file in 'normal' fashion - only backwards...

Oh, right, I forgot about tac. But this could be slow on large files
(and non portable).

Thank you for your answer,

Patrick