Following a file, or cloning tail

[Mark Hammond]

> I guess I'm just glad that my requirements to use Windows stops with
> NT, since I also think Python might be a non-starter for a lot of my
> administration apps if popen() didn't work reliably.  Of course, MS is
> far more to blame for this than Python :-)

And Bill Tutt is to be eternally thanked for Python solving it :-)

[And Gordon is correct - later builds have reliable popen on Win9x too,
also thanks to Bill!]

Mark.