Re: How to show system messages

[Mark Mackenzie <markm student unsw edu au>]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:56:44PM -0700, Jeff Shipman wrote:

> 2) Use 'tail -f filename' and it will constantly
>    update whenever something is added.

if you forked 'tail -f filename', you could monitor any new output with
something like:

outiomontag=gdk_input_add(stdout_pipe[0],GDK_INPUT_READ,
                            (GdkInputFunction)dispout,NULL);

check out the gtk tuts and gdk docs.

hth,
mark.