David has, in fairly scathing tones, encouraged me to read the tail man page because *he* wants it to be identical. Which, well, okay, I’ll read it, FINE.
@ceejbot i think i read the tail man page for the first time because of your initial post on this

@hipsterelectron @ceejbot I probably did read it at some point in the late 80s but I so surmise merely because I have been using tail for longer than I can remember

On the other hand the man tail I read was probably for system V so prob irrelevant in this context

@jefuf @ceejbot i suspect posix standardized some things in the meantime but they usually only standardize things that have been agreed on already so it may not look so different