I'm trying to figure out what is intended by the default behavior of
"SeekBack" on P:W:FollowTail... it sez the default is to use 4096 bytes but
the description implies that if the default is used, those 4096 bytes are
just silently dropped?

Whereas if a value is specified, and is larger than the actual filesize, it
will just go back to the SEEK_SET and use that. (according to the docs)

Wouldn't a more reasonable behavoir be to rewind $SeekBack bytes, and scan
til the next (filter determined) record beginning, and resume from there?

Otherwise I'm thinking that the best way to use the parameter (in order to
NOT miss anything) is to set SeekBack to be ridiculously large, and thus
guarantee no records (lines) are lost.

Comments?  Did I miss something?

L8r,
Rob

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