Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 11:06:37 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
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Subject: Re: tail -n vs tail --lines=n
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On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Jeff Williams wrote:

> % tail -8 foo.bar
> c:/djgpp/bin/tail.exe: invalid option -- 8
> Try `c:/djgpp/bin/tail.exe --help' for more information.

I cannot reproduce this, -8 works for me.  Is it possible that you
have `tail' aliased to something, and the alias is the cause of the
problem?