--- busybox-1.19.2/coreutils/tail.c
+++ busybox-1.19.2-tail/coreutils/tail.c
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ int tail_main(int argc, char **argv)
 		int fd = fds[i];
 
 		if (ENABLE_FEATURE_FANCY_TAIL && fd < 0)
-			continue; /* may happen with -E */
+			continue; /* may happen with -F */
 
 		if (nfiles > header_threshhold) {
 			tail_xprint_header(fmt, argv[i]);
@@ -252,14 +252,14 @@ int tail_main(int argc, char **argv)
 		 * Used only by +N code ("start from Nth", 1-based): */
 		seen = 1;
 		newlines_seen = 0;
-		while ((nread = tail_read(fd, buf, tailbufsize-taillen)) > 0) {
+		while ((nread = tail_read(fd, buf, tailbufsize - taillen)) > 0) {
 			if (G.from_top) {
 				int nwrite = nread;
 				if (seen < count) {
 					/* We need to skip a few more bytes/lines */
 					if (COUNT_BYTES) {
 						nwrite -= (count - seen);
-						seen = count;
+						seen += nread;
 					} else {
 						char *s = buf;
 						do {
--- busybox-1.19.2/testsuite/tail.tests
+++ busybox-1.19.2-tail/testsuite/tail.tests
@@ -14,4 +14,12 @@ testing "tail: +N with N > file length" 
 	"0\n" \
 	"" "qw"
 
+testing "tail: -c +N with largish N" \
+	"
+	dd if=/dev/zero bs=16k count=1 2>/dev/null | tail -c +8200 | wc -c;
+	dd if=/dev/zero bs=16k count=1 2>/dev/null | tail -c +8208 | wc -c;
+	" \
+	"8185\n8177\n" \
+	"" ""
+
 exit $FAILCOUNT