Problem with tail

Jon Thackray jont@harlequin.co.uk
Thu Feb 6 11:01:00 GMT 1997


It appears that the beta-17 version of tail differes from the unix
version in its interpretation of a number passed to it.

eg tail +2 on unix is interpreted as tail from line 2 onwards, whereas
in beta-17 it seems to be interpreted as tail starting after line 2.

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