[Boost-users] logfile write/poll mechanism

Hi, This might not be a Boost question. I'm not sure. I have 2 independent applications. One is writing information to a log file somewhere, the other contains a console window. What I would like to do is poll the log file from the application with the console window, and write any new lines (since last poll) to the window. It's seems like a fairly trivial thing to implement, but I don't have a lot of experience dealing with files, and I suspect there are already facilities to do such a thing. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Cheers, Thijs