Bug 920119

Description of problem:
for some reason, Fedora ships parallel and sets --tollef by default.
 $ cat /etc/parallel/config 
--tollef

As per the man page:
       --tollef Make GNU parallel behave more like Tollef's parallel command. It
                activates -u, -q, and --arg-sep --. It also causes -l to change
                meaning to --load.

                Not giving '--' is unsupported.

                Do not use --tollef unless you know what you are doing.

                To override use --gnu.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

parallel-20121222-1.fc17.noarch : Shell tool for executing jobs in parallel
Repo        : @updates-testing
Matched from:
Filename    : /etc/parallel/config

$ rpm --verify parallel ; echo $?
0


How reproducible:
Try to use almost *any* example from the man page.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. for i in `seq 10`; do touch $i.html; done
2. $ find . -name '*.html' | parallel gzip
gzip: compressed data not written to a terminal. Use -f to force compression.
For help, type: gzip -h

3. $ find . -name '*.html' | parallel --gnu gzip
4. $ ls
10.html.gz  2.html.gz  4.html.gz  6.html.gz  8.html.gz
1.html.gz   3.html.gz  5.html.gz  7.html.gz  9.html.gz


I expected to be able to copy and paste example from the man page, which currently read:
EXAMPLE: Working as xargs -n1. Argument appending
       GNU parallel can work similar to xargs -n1.

       To compress all html files using gzip run:

       find . -name '*.html' | parallel gzip

EXAMPLE: Reading arguments from command line
       GNU parallel can take the arguments from command line instead of stdin
       (standard input). To compress all html files in the current dir using gzip
       run:

       parallel gzip ::: *.html

neither of the examples work.

So I suggest to either rewrite the man page or simply remove that default option.