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.AtEndOfStream question - 11/20/2007 1:23:01 AM

Brad

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I am writing a script that monitors multiple log files in real time using a windows port of "tail" to follow the files and put lines to stdout for scraping.

It is essential that the tail program be used because it allows me to watch log files via FTP, which cannot be done programatically in vbscript, AFAIK. The problem lies in the fact that .stdout.readline will wait for something to read if nothing is present, and .AtEndOfStream will not return false because...well...the stream has not ended because the tail program is still running. What I need is this:

Do until blnPigsFly

if stdout1 contains a new line
     print the new line
end if

if stdout2 contains a new line
      print the new line
   end if

if stdout3 contains a new line
      print the new line
   end if

Loop

As it stands, one log file has to be written to before it will advance to the next one because StdOut.ReadLine halts the script and waits for input.

Thoughts?

-Brad