bug in tail

[Thomas Heine]

Hello,

contrary to documentation and old versions the following commands
don't work any longer for new versions of tail, as present in newer
versions of Debian and Novell linux:

tail -1 *.inp (*.inp gives a list of some files) gives an error (tail:
invalid option -- 1).

tail --lines=1 *.inp works well

tail -1 h2.inp (applied to a single file) works also fine.

Regards,
Thomas Heine