bug#52033: a bug in paste command

[Visser, Gerard]

hi,
  Hard as it is for me to believe, it seems I have uncovered a bug in the paste 
command. I got unexpected/incorrect results in the course of my work (which I 
can describe as merging two data files from some electronic test equipment for 
the purposes of analysis and plotting). Attached is a tarfile of a test case 
with two files and a log showing the incorrect results and the version info of 
paste.
   I hope this email will reach the right people to investigate this.
    If it is a known issue and there is a workaround for me to use, please do 
let me know.
  Thanks, sincerely,

      Gerard Visser
      EE, Indiana University

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