tail +123 or tail -n +123?

[Aaron Konstam]

> > > Yes, the manpage is not up-to-date, however 'info tail' is.
> > > The new behaviour is standard compliant, to revert to the
> > > previous behaviour you can also set the environment variable
> > > _POSIX2_VERSION=199209.
> > 
> > Thanks for the clarification and for the tip :-).
> Except on my FC5 system info tail has the same error as man tail. Any
> explanations out there?
> -- 
I am having a bad day. The FC5 info file is indeed correct. Sorry for
the confusion. 
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>