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In article <DRW.92Sep8135859@nevanlinna.mit.edu> Dale R. Worley writes:

>If one searches backwards (using a negative argument to S), is the
>point left at the beginning of the string (so that -Sstring$ when
>executed repeatedly finds successive occurrences backwards), or is the
>point left at the end of the string (as when S searches forward)?

Quoting the PDP-11 TECO User's Guide, February 1980, referring
to TECO-11 V36:

  -nStext$   Identical to "nStext$" except that the search proceeds
             in the reverse direction. If the string is not found, the
             pointer is positioned immediately before the first character
             in the buffer and an error message is printed. If the pointer
             is positioned at the beginning of or within an occurrence of
             the desired string, that occurrence is considered to be the 
             first one found. Upon successful completion, the pointer is
             positioned after the last character in the string found.

I think the last sentence says it all.

Regards,

Marcy