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@@ -219,6 +219,21 @@ environment variable RSYNC_PROXY to a hostname:port pair pointing to
 your web proxy.  Note that your web proxy's configuration must support
 proxy connections to port 873.
 
+You may also establish a daemon connection using a program as a proxy by
+setting the environment variable RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG to the commands you
+wish to run in place of making a direct socket connection.  The string may
+contain the escape "%H" to represent the hostname specified in the rsync
+command (so use "%%" if you need a single "%" in your string).  For
+example:
+
+verb(  export RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG='ssh proxyhost nc %H 873'
+  rsync -av targethost1::module/src/ /dest/
+  rsync -av rsync:://targethost2/module/src/ /dest/ )
+
+The command specifed above uses ssh to run nc (netcat) on a proxyhost,
+which forwards all data to port 873 (the rsync daemon) on the targethost
+(%H).
+
 manpagesection(USING RSYNC-DAEMON FEATURES VIA A REMOTE-SHELL CONNECTION)
 
 It is sometimes useful to use various features of an rsync daemon (such as
@@ -330,7 +345,7 @@ to the detailed description below for a complete description.  verb(
  -E, --executability         preserve executability
      --chmod=CHMOD           affect file and/or directory permissions
  -A, --acls                  preserve ACLs (implies -p)
- -X, --xattrs                preserve extended attrs (implies -p)
+ -X, --xattrs                preserve extended attributes
  -o, --owner                 preserve owner (super-user only)
  -g, --group                 preserve group
      --devices               preserve device files (super-user only)
@@ -848,8 +863,7 @@ works if the remote rsync also supports it.  bf(--acls) implies bf(--perms).
 
 dit(bf(-X, --xattrs)) This option causes rsync to update the remote
 extended attributes to be the same as the local ones.  This will work
-only if the remote machine's rsync supports this option also. This is
-a non-standard option.
+only if the remote machine's rsync also supports this option.
 
 dit(bf(--chmod)) This option tells rsync to apply one or more
 comma-separated "chmod" strings to the permission of the files in the
@@ -964,7 +978,7 @@ correctly and ends up corrupting the files.
 dit(bf(-n, --dry-run)) This tells rsync to not do any file transfers,
 instead it will just report the actions it would have taken.
 
-dit(bf(-W, --whole-file)) With this option the differential rsync algorithm
+dit(bf(-W, --whole-file)) With this option the delta transfer algorithm
 is not used and the whole file is sent as-is instead.  The transfer may be
 faster if this option is used when the bandwidth between the source and
 destination machines is higher than the bandwidth to disk (especially when the
@@ -1706,7 +1720,7 @@ after it has served its purpose.
 Note that if bf(--whole-file) is specified (or implied), any partial-dir
 file that is found for a file that is being updated will simply be removed
 (since
-rsync is sending files without using the differential rsync algorithm).
+rsync is sending files without using the delta transfer algorithm).
 
 Rsync will create the em(DIR) if it is missing (just the last dir -- not
 the whole path).  This makes it easy to use a relative path (such as
@@ -1824,7 +1838,7 @@ sender's file, which is being reconstructed at a rate of 110.64 kilobytes
 per second, and the transfer will finish in 4 seconds if the current rate
 is maintained until the end.
 
-These statistics can be misleading if the differential transfer algorithm is
+These statistics can be misleading if the delta transfer algorithm is
 in use.  For example, if the sender's file consists of the basis file
 followed by additional data, the reported rate will probably drop
 dramatically when the receiver gets to the literal data, and the transfer
@@ -2720,7 +2734,7 @@ values
 
 see also the comments on the bf(--delete) option
 
-Please report bugs! See the website at
+Please report bugs! See the web site at
 url(http://rsync.samba.org/)(http://rsync.samba.org/)
 
 manpagesection(VERSION)