From: "James F.Hranicky" <jfh@...>
Date: 2002-08-02T23:48:24+09:00
Subject: Re: A very basic tail -f implementation

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 22:55:02 +0900
Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 05:50:17AM +0900, James F.Hranicky wrote:

> >             i = getc
> >             c = sprintf("%c", i)
> >             numlines += 1 if (c == "\n")
> Could this be replaced with:
>               numlines += 1 if getc() == ?\n

Hmmm...I haven't run across "?\n" before -- what does that do?

Jim