My coworker recently discovered a bug in the print-command, kind of
exotic, but nonetheless caused us some pain to discover it was the
:print-command and not our programming that made output seem
indeterminate...

When printing interactively to $stdout, :print has a nice feature - it
stops printing when a page is written and asks (from :help-text)
(NEXT/EOF) CONTINUE?, now, if I enter a number greater than NEXT+1,
:print continues printing one line before I expected, and, stops
printing one line before (i.e. loosing one line!).

An example might make it clearer (parameter #5 (;PAGE=) sets
page-length, used here for brevity):
:print pfile,,,,4
record 1
record 2
record 3
record 4
(5/8) Continue?   [cr]
record 5
record 6
record 7
record 8
:do
:print pfile,,,,4
record 1
record 2
record 3
record 4
(5/8) Continue?  [7]
record 6
record 7
: {record 8 missing...}

Is it just us? we're on 5.5 pp6. Has it always been like this? (think of
the number of lines I've missed ;-) It is a bug, right? It's not me, is
it?-

/per
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