[Lazarus] tail on windows

[Marc Weustink]

Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:33:03 +0000
> dmitry boyarintsev <skalogryz.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> To make the file sharable at Windows you need to apply this patch to
>> lcl proc (and eventually rebuild LCL and Lazarus):
>> After that any program can read/write to the logging file
> 
> Is it really that complicated under windows to open a file shared
> readable?
> Why is an Assign, Close, Assign, Append needed?

You need to make sure a file exists. IIRC it is not possible to create a 
file for sharing, you can only open a file sharable


Marc