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Expand Up @@ -25,4 +25,13 @@ designed to work with log rotation tools.

## Windows support

This package [needs assistance](https://github.com/hpcloud/tail/labels/Windows) for full Windows support.
If the above example doesn't work for you, try replacing fsnotify method with polling:

```Go
t, err := tail.TailFile("/var/log/nginx.log", tail.Config{Follow: true, Poll: true})
for line := range t.Lines {
fmt.Println(line.Text)
}
```

For further assistance on Windows support, [check the windows-labeled issues](https://github.com/hpcloud/tail/labels/Windows).