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TailWin is a text file viewer for the Windows™ Operating system. It continually monitors a file for changes and updates the text area to display the changes to the file. It prints out lines in the file in reverse order so that the newest lines of text are displayed at the top. This makes the program ideally suited for viewing log files such as Apache web server access logs or error logs.

The main features of TailWin Log File Viewer are:

  • Specify a text file to watch for changes
  • Displays text lines with newest at the top for quickly seeing the newest updates without scrolling
  • Text output can be cleared without modifications to the file to quickly view newest changes
  • Main window can be placed on top of all other windows so that changes to the text file are immediately visible
  • Multiple instances can be running simultaneously to watch multiple files such as Apache access log and error log

The following picture shows TailWin in operation. In this example, TailWin was watching the Apache server error log when the server was started up. Notice the top item displayed is the last thing the server reported. Click on the picture to see a larger image.

TailWin Main Window

More details can be found by following this link to the TailWin FAQ Page.

TailWin is available in our shop at this link to TailWin in the shop.