> > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>