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Re: Documentation about Multios is misleading, and perhaps untrue



I don't see why we shouldn't at least be a bit more careful...

pws

diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo b/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo
index c793638..fc52c77 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/redirect.yo
@@ -268,9 +268,10 @@ example(echo exit 0 >> *.sh)
 
 If the user tries to open a file descriptor for reading more than once,
 the shell opens the file descriptor as a pipe to a process that copies
-all the specified inputs to its output in the order
-specified, similar to bf(cat),
-provided the tt(MULTIOS) option is set.  Thus
+all the specified inputs to its output in the order specified, provided
+the tt(MULTIOS) option is set.  This is roughly similar to bf(cat) but
+note that shell redirection syntax implies differences in detailed
+behaviour.  Thus
 
 example(sort <foo <fubar)
 



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