Bug in tail 5.96 - "+" argument not recognized

[Kevin Burtch]

Tail version 5.96 (as supplied in Fedora Core 5) has a bug where it
does not recognize "+" as a command-line argument:

      $ tail +4 /etc/hosts
      tail: cannot open `+4' for reading: No such file or directory

This does not comply with the supplied man-page:

      If the first character of N (the number of bytes or lines)  is  a  '+',
      print  beginning  with the Nth item from the start of each file, other-
      wise, print the last N items in the file.  N may have a multiplier suf-
      fix: b 512, k 1024, m 1024*1024.

Regards,
Kevin Burtch