Description of problem:

Under Redhat Enterprise 4.X, the tail command would accept the "+numlines" argument.  On 5.2, it does not. 


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

tail under 4.6 is based on coreutils 5.2.1
tail under 5.2 is based on coreutils 5.97

How reproducible:

tail +2

Actual results:

tail: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory

Expected results:

lines 2+ of file 

Note: tail -n +2 works, but "tail -2" still works (to give the last 2 lines of the file)... either tail should enforce the fact that -n needs to always be used, and hence "-2" shouldn't work, or if -2 works without -n, +2 should work as well.