From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 23:05:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (tail invocation): Describe obsolete usages
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(tail invocation): Describe obsolete usages
like "tail -2" more precisely.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 8f220b192a..7166352bc0 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -2549,9 +2549,9 @@ Always print file name headers.
 
 @end table
 
-For compatibility @command{tail} also supports an obsolete option
-syntax @option{-@var{count}[bcl][f]}, which is recognized only if it
-is specified first and does not conflict with the usage described
+For compatibility @command{tail} also supports an obsolete usage
+@samp{tail -@var{count}[bcl][f] [@var{file}]}, which is recognized
+only if it does not conflict with the usage described
 above.  @var{count} is an optional decimal number optionally
 followed by a size letter (@samp{b}, @samp{c}, @samp{l}) to mean count
 by 512-byte blocks, bytes, or lines, optionally followed by @samp{f}