Running in xterm:
falsifian moth ~ $ 9 tail +1c
hello
hello
falsifian moth ~ $ echo hello | 9 tail +1c
ello
For some reason, in the first case, it's not skipping the "h". The effect is similar with numbers other than 1.
This is plan9port-20210323 from OpenBSD ports, which should be at commit 88a87fa