Coretutils tail command no longer correctly accepting +2 as a parameter

[Bruce Baxter]

The info documentation describes the long-standing "start from the top
and start with the nth line as output" parameter +n.

The GNU coreutils version 5.97 (included with Fedora Core 5 in RPM
coreutils-5.97-1.2) returns an error, for example:

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

The GNU coreutils version 5.2.1 (included with Fedora Core 4 in RPM
coreutils-5.2.1-48.1) behaves correctly and starts it's output with the
second line of the file specified for processing.

Workaround:  The older version operates correctly on the affected
system(s) when simply copied to /usr/bin/tail.