Forms 4.5 - UNIX help needed

Can anyone offer advice on whether it is possible to create a form (Forms 4.5) which could act in a similar way to a

tail -f <filename>

in UNIX. (I need to display a continually updated system log held on a UNIX server)

The only 2 ways I could think of are :
1) Write each line of the log to a db table and have a timer which fires every so often to refresh the forms display. 2) Have a server process (c - executable) which takes the output of the tail as stdin, and then pass it down an Oracle pipe back to the form. Either way is there anyway I can get the effect of a scrolling log ??

Any assistence would be greatly appreciated. Cheers. Received on Tue Oct 20 1998 - 21:35:53 CEST