On 11/26/2010 12:44 AM, Johan Pretorius wrote: > I use tail 5.3.0 in Windows 7.
Hmm, that's rather old. I suggest upgrading to a more-recent version before investigating further. The current version is 8.7. Also, you might try reporting the bug to whoever built it on Windows rather than to bug-coreutils, as it could well be a property of the Windows port rather than a bug in coreutils itself.
