Windows XP equivalent of "tail -f"?

Windows XP equivalent of "tail -f"? Is there way have windows XP show me updates to a log file as they happen? I'm thinking of something similar to tail -f <file path> in the linux realm.
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Guest [Entry]

"Using Windows Powershell, you can use Get-Content < filename > -wait

There's also a discussion of a Windows Server 2003 tools package that has a tail program which supports -f"

Guest [Entry]

Just use the tail program from the cygwin project. this is "just" a ported UN*X tail command.

Guest [Entry]

I can recommend LogExpert an other alternatives

Guest [Entry]

If you happen to have a version of git installed that comes with bash (for instance the one from git-scm.com), you can use the tail included with that.

Guest [Entry]

"You can checkout in'side log.

A Java tool I created, able to read local and distant log files using SSH. It is fairly simple to use.

Some more explanations: github.com/pschweitz/insidelog/wiki

Just download the version corresponding to your operating system, or the native jar release executable within your Java Runtime (requires java 8_40 or higher):

github.com/pschweitz/insidelog/releases

You can find a complete documentation (embedded with and in Github's page as well)"