/TAIL[=n] Displays the last several lines of a log file. The value, n, defaults to p-2 where p is the current terminal page length. You can use TYPE/TAIL only if all of the following criteria are true: o File organization is sequential. o The longest record is less than 512 bytes. o The record format is either VAR, VFC, STM, STMCR or STMLF (for more information, see the description of FAB$B_RFM in the OpenVMS Record Management Services Reference Manual). o The file being typed is on a device that supports random access. The TYPE/TAIL command does not work on magnetic tape drives. Even with this criteria, some file conditions cannot be anticipated and may not allow display of the last several lines of a log file, resulting in the following error message: %TYPE-W-READERR, error reading DEVICE:[DIRECTORY]FILE.EXT;1 -SYSTEM-E-UNSUPPORTED, unsupported operation or function