diff --git a/src/optional/R/load-parallel-results.r b/src/optional/R/load-parallel-results.r
deleted file mode 100644
index 15f70586..00000000
--- a/src/optional/R/load-parallel-results.r
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,125 +0,0 @@
-## Copyright (C) 2014 Ole Tange, David Rosenberg, and Free Software
-## Foundation, Inc.
-##
-## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
-## (at your option) any later version.
-##
-## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-## General Public License for more details.
-##
-## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-## along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
-## or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St,
-## Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
-##
-##
-## LIBRARY FOR READING GNU PARALLEL RESULTS 
-##
-## Example:
-## parallel --results my/results/dir --header : \
-##   'printf "FOO={foo}\\tBAR={bar}\\n";paste <(seq {bar}) <(seq {bar} -1 1)' \
-##   :::: <(echo foo; seq 100) <(echo bar; seq 10)
-##
-## dir="my/results/dir"
-## filenametable <- load_parallel_results_filenames(dir);
-## raw <- load_parallel_results_raw(filenametable)
-## newlines <- load_parallel_results_split_on_newline(filenametable)
-## rawdt <- raw_to_data.table(raw)
-## rawdf <- raw_to_data.frame(raw)
-
-load_parallel_results_filenames <- function(resdir) {
-  ## Find files called .../stdout
-  stdoutnames <- list.files(path=resdir, pattern="stdout", recursive=T);
-  ## Find files called .../stderr
-  stderrnames <- list.files(path=resdir, pattern="stderr", recursive=T);
-  if(length(stdoutnames) == 0) {
-    ## Return empty data frame if no files found
-    return(data.frame());
-  }
-  ## The argument names are every other dir level
-  ## The argument values are every other dir level
-  ## e.g. my/results/dir/age/18/chromosome/20/stdout
-  m <- matrix(unlist(strsplit(stdoutnames, "/")),nrow = length(stdoutnames),byrow=T);
-  filenametable <- as.table(m[,c(F,T)]);
-  ## Append the stdout and stderr filenames
-  filenametable <- cbind(filenametable,
-                         paste(resdir,unlist(stdoutnames),sep="/"),
-                         paste(resdir,unlist(stderrnames),sep="/"));
-  colnames(filenametable) <- c(strsplit(stdoutnames[1],"/")[[1]][c(T,F)],"stderr");
-  return(filenametable);
-}
-
-load_parallel_results_raw <- function(filenametable) {
-  ## Read the files given in column stdout
-  stdoutcontents <-
-    lapply(filenametable[,c("stdout")],
-           function(filename) {
-             return(readChar(filename, file.info(filename)$size));
-           } );
-  ## Read the files given in column stderr
-  stderrcontents <-
-    lapply(filenametable[,c("stderr")],
-           function(filename) {
-             return(readChar(filename, file.info(filename)$size));
-           } );
-  ## Replace filenames with file contents
-  filenametable[,c("stdout","stderr")] <-
-    c(as.character(stdoutcontents),as.character(stderrcontents));
-  return(filenametable);
-}
-
-load_parallel_results_split_on_newline <- function(filenametable,split="\n") {
-  raw <- load_parallel_results_raw(filenametable);
-  ## Keep all columns except stdout and stderr
-  varnames = setdiff(colnames(raw), c("stdout","stderr"))
-  ## Find the id of the non-stdout and non-stderr columns
-  header_cols = which(colnames(raw) %in% varnames)
-  ## Split stdout on \n
-  splits = strsplit(raw[,"stdout"], split)
-  ## Compute lengths of all the lines
-  lens = sapply(splits, length)
-  ## The arguments should be repeated as many times as there are lines
-  reps = rep(1:nrow(raw), lens)
-  ## Merge the repeating argument and the lines into a matrix
-  m = cbind(raw[reps, header_cols], unlist(splits))
-  return(m)
-}
-
-raw_to_data.table <- function(raw, ...) {
-  require(data.table)
-  ## Keep all columns except stdout and stderr
-  varnames = setdiff(colnames(raw), c("stdout","stderr"))  
-  ## after data.table feature request the as.data.frame can be skipped
-  ## and will thus be much faster
-  ddt = as.data.table(as.data.frame(raw,stringsAsFactors=FALSE))
-  ## ensure fread knows stdout is string and not filename by appending \n
-  ddt[, stdout := paste0(stdout,"\n")]
-  ## drop files with empty stdout
-  ddd = ddt[nchar(stdout)>1,fread(stdout, header=FALSE, ...), by=varnames]
-  return(ddd)
-}
-
-raw_to_data.frame <- function(raw, ...) {
-  require(plyr)
-  ## Convert to data.frame without factors
-  raw = as.data.frame(raw, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
-  ## Keep all columns except stdout and stderr
-  varnames = setdiff(colnames(raw), c("stdout","stderr"))  
-  
-  dd = ddply(raw, .variables=varnames, function(row) {
-    ## Ignore empty stdouts
-    if (nchar(row[,"stdout"]) == 0) {
-      return(NULL)
-    }
-    ## Read stdout with read.table
-    con <- textConnection(row[,"stdout"], open = "r")
-    d = read.table(con, header=FALSE, ...)
-    return(d)
-  })
-
-  return(dd)
-}
diff --git a/src/parallel b/src/parallel
index 766771a5..0621e6fc 100755
--- a/src/parallel
+++ b/src/parallel
@@ -316,8 +316,10 @@ sub spreadstdin {
       if(not $anything_written and not eof($in)) {
 	  # Nothing was written - maybe the block size < record size?
 	  # Increase blocksize exponentially
+	  my $old_blocksize = $blocksize;
 	  $blocksize = ceil($blocksize * 1.3 + 1);
-	  ::warning("A full record was not matched in a block. Increasing to --blocksize ".$blocksize."\n");
+	  ::warning("A record was longer than $old_blocksize. " .
+		    "Increasing to --blocksize $blocksize\n");
       }
     }
     # If there is anything left in the buffer write it
@@ -626,7 +628,7 @@ sub get_options_from_array {
 sub parse_options {
     # Returns: N/A
     # Defaults:
-    $Global::version = 20140222;
+    $Global::version = 20140315;
     $Global::progname = 'parallel';
     $Global::infinity = 2**31;
     $Global::debug = 0;
@@ -5025,16 +5027,8 @@ sub print {
 		    # Remove the printed part
 		    substr($$partial,0,$i+1)="";
 		}
-
 	    }
 	    if(defined $self->{'exitstatus'}) {
-		# The job is finished, there might be line with no \n left
-		print $out_fd $$partial;
-	    }
-
-	    if($self->fh($fdno,"rpid") and CORE::kill 0, $self->fh($fdno,"rpid")) {
-		# decompress still running
-	    } elsif(defined $self->{'exitstatus'}) {
 		# If the job is dead: print the remaining partial line
 		# read remaining
 		if($$partial and ($opt::tag or defined $opt::tagstring)) {
@@ -5044,8 +5038,12 @@ sub print {
 		print $out_fd $$partial;
 		# Release the memory
 		$$partial = undef;
-		# then close fh
-		close $in_fh;
+		if($self->fh($fdno,"rpid") and CORE::kill 0, $self->fh($fdno,"rpid")) {
+		    # decompress still running
+		} else {
+		    # decompress done: close fh
+		    close $in_fh;
+		}
 	    }
 	} else {
 	    my $buf;
diff --git a/src/parallel.texi b/src/parallel.texi
index 836a66ab..5ed17c41 100644
--- a/src/parallel.texi
+++ b/src/parallel.texi
@@ -3328,7 +3328,7 @@ this. To see this in action try:
   parallel -kP4 -n1 grep 1 > out.par ::: a b c d e f
   echo a b c d e f | xargs -P4 -n1 grep 1 > out.xargs-unbuf
   echo a b c d e f | xargs -P4 -n1 grep --line-buffered 1 > out.xargs-linebuf
-  echo a b c d e f | xargs -n1 grep --line-buffered 1 > out.xargs-serial
+  echo a b c d e f | xargs -n1 grep 1 > out.xargs-serial
   ls -l out*
   md5sum out*
 @end verbatim
diff --git a/testsuite/tests-to-run/niceload03.sh b/testsuite/tests-to-run/niceload03.sh
index 0d05e490..745b759b 100644
--- a/testsuite/tests-to-run/niceload03.sh
+++ b/testsuite/tests-to-run/niceload03.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ echo '### niceload with no arguments should give no output'
 echo '### Test -t and -s'
   niceload -v -t 1 -s 2 sleep 4.5
 
-echo 'bug #38908: niceload: Ctrl-C/TERM should resume jobs if using -p'
+echo 'bug #38908: niceload: Ctrl-C/TERM should resume jobs if using -p - Order may change, but not output'
   # This should take 10 seconds to run + delay from niceload
   # niceload killed after 1 sec => The delay from niceload should be no more than 1 second
   stdout /usr/bin/time -f %e perl -e 'for(1..100) { select(undef, undef, undef, 0.1); } print "done\n"' | int & 
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ echo 'bug #38908: niceload: Ctrl-C/TERM should resume jobs if using -p'
   export A=$!; 
   sleep 2; 
   kill -s TERM $A; 
-  wait
+  wait; 
+  echo Finished
 
 echo 'bug #38908: niceload: Ctrl-C should resume jobs if using -p'
   # This should take 10 seconds to run + delay from niceload
diff --git a/testsuite/tests-to-run/parallel-local9.sh b/testsuite/tests-to-run/parallel-local9.sh
index ad3ec2d7..ff28f53e 100644
--- a/testsuite/tests-to-run/parallel-local9.sh
+++ b/testsuite/tests-to-run/parallel-local9.sh
@@ -11,25 +11,51 @@ echo 'bug #41613: --compress --line-buffer no newline';
 
 echo 'bug #41613: --compress --line-buffer no --tagstring';
   diff 
-    <(perl -e 'for("x011".."x110"){print "$_\t", (map { rand } (1..100000)),"\n"}'| 
+    <(nice perl -e 'for("x011".."x110"){print "$_\t", ("\n", map { rand } (1..100000)) }'| 
       parallel -N10 -L1 --pipe -j6 --block 20M --compress 
       pv -qL 3000000 | perl -pe 's/(....).*/$1/') 
-    <(perl -e 'for("x011".."x110"){print "$_\t", (map { rand } (1..100000)),"\n"}'| 
+    <(nice perl -e 'for("x011".."x110"){print "$_\t", ("\n", map { rand } (1..100000)) }'| 
       parallel -N10 -L1 --pipe -j6 --block 20M --compress --line-buffer 
       pv -qL 3000000 | perl -pe 's/(....).*/$1/') 
     >/dev/null 
-  || echo 'Good: --line-buffer matters'
+  || (echo 'Good: --line-buffer matters'; false) && echo 'Bad: --line-buffer not working'
 
 echo 'bug #41613: --compress --line-buffer with --tagstring';
   diff 
-    <(perl -e 'for("x011".."x110"){print "$_\t", (map { rand } (1..100000)),"\n"}'| 
+    <(nice perl -e 'for("x011".."x110"){print "$_\t", ("\n", map { rand } (1..100000)) }'| 
       parallel -N10 -L1 --pipe -j6 --block 20M --compress --tagstring {#} 
       pv -qL 3000000 | perl -pe 's/(....).*/$1/') 
-    <(perl -e 'for("x011".."x110"){print "$_\t", (map { rand } (1..100000)),"\n"}'| 
+    <(nice perl -e 'for("x011".."x110"){print "$_\t", ("\n", map { rand } (1..100000)) }'| 
       parallel -N10 -L1 --pipe -j6 --block 20M --compress --tagstring {#} --line-buffer 
       pv -qL 3000000 | perl -pe 's/(....).*/$1/') 
     >/dev/null 
-  || echo 'Good: --line-buffer matters'
+  || (echo 'Good: --line-buffer matters'; false) && echo 'Bad: --line-buffer not working'
+
+echo 'bug #41613: --compress --line-buffer - no newline';
+ echo 'pipe compress tagstring'
+ perl -e 'print "O"'| parallel --compress --tagstring {#} --pipe --line-buffer cat
+ echo "K"
+ echo 'pipe compress notagstring'
+ perl -e 'print "O"'| parallel --compress --pipe --line-buffer cat
+ echo "K"
+ echo 'pipe nocompress tagstring'
+ perl -e 'print "O"'| parallel --tagstring {#} --pipe --line-buffer cat
+ echo "K"
+ echo 'pipe nocompress notagstring'
+ perl -e 'print "O"'| parallel --pipe --line-buffer cat
+ echo "K"
+ echo 'nopipe compress tagstring'
+ parallel --compress --tagstring {#} --line-buffer echo {} O ::: -n
+ echo "K"
+ echo 'nopipe compress notagstring'
+ parallel --compress --line-buffer echo {} O ::: -n
+ echo "K"
+ echo 'nopipe nocompress tagstring'
+ parallel --tagstring {#} --line-buffer echo {} O ::: -n
+ echo "K"
+ echo 'nopipe nocompress notagstring'
+ parallel --line-buffer echo {} O ::: -n
+ echo "K"
 
 echo 'bug #41412: --timeout + --delay causes deadlock';
   seq 10 | parallel -j10 --timeout 1 --delay .3 echo;
diff --git a/testsuite/wanted-results/niceload03 b/testsuite/wanted-results/niceload03
index 623b5b03..6160319e 100644
--- a/testsuite/wanted-results/niceload03
+++ b/testsuite/wanted-results/niceload03
@@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ Sleeping 1s
 Running 2s
 Sleeping 1s
 Running 2s
-bug #38908: niceload: Ctrl-C/TERM should resume jobs if using -p
-Sleeping 1s
-Running 10s
+bug #38908: niceload: Ctrl-C/TERM should resume jobs if using -p - Order may change, but not output
 done
 10
+Finished
+Sleeping 1s
+Running 10s
 bug #38908: niceload: Ctrl-C should resume jobs if using -p
-Sleeping 1s
-Running 10s
 done
 10
+Sleeping 1s
+Running 10s
diff --git a/testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local5 b/testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local5
index ff223c7a..f1852c98 100644
--- a/testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local5
+++ b/testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local5
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ### Test --pipe
 ### Test 200M records with too small block
-parallel: Warning: A full record was not matched in a block. Increasing to --blocksize 260000001
+parallel: Warning: A record was longer than 200000000. Increasing to --blocksize 260000001
 303111434
 303111434
 303111434
@@ -127,10 +127,10 @@ c
 1>01a02a0a
 2>0a12a34a
 3>45a6a
-parallel: Warning: A full record was not matched in a block. Increasing to --blocksize 3
-parallel: Warning: A full record was not matched in a block. Increasing to --blocksize 5
+parallel: Warning: A record was longer than 1. Increasing to --blocksize 3
+parallel: Warning: A record was longer than 3. Increasing to --blocksize 5
 1>01a02a0a
-parallel: Warning: A full record was not matched in a block. Increasing to --blocksize 8
+parallel: Warning: A record was longer than 5. Increasing to --blocksize 8
 2>0a12a34a
 3>45a6a
 ### Test 10M records with too big block
diff --git a/testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local9 b/testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local9
index 77fd3fe5..596151bd 100644
--- a/testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local9
+++ b/testsuite/wanted-results/parallel-local9
@@ -4,6 +4,23 @@ bug #41613: --compress --line-buffer no --tagstring
 Good: --line-buffer matters
 bug #41613: --compress --line-buffer with --tagstring
 Good: --line-buffer matters
+bug #41613: --compress --line-buffer - no newline
+pipe compress tagstring
+1	OK
+pipe compress notagstring
+OK
+pipe nocompress tagstring
+1	OK
+pipe nocompress notagstring
+OK
+nopipe compress tagstring
+1	OK
+nopipe compress notagstring
+OK
+nopipe nocompress tagstring
+1	OK
+nopipe nocompress notagstring
+OK
 bug #41412: --timeout + --delay causes deadlock
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