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+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -853,9 +853,18 @@ running rsync daemon on the remote host.  See the section "USING
 RSYNC-DAEMON FEATURES VIA A REMOTE-SHELL CONNECTION" above.
 
 Command-line arguments are permitted in COMMAND provided that COMMAND is
-presented to rsync as a single argument.  For example:
+presented to rsync as a single argument.  You must use spaces (not tabs
+or other whitespace) to separate the command and args from each other,
+and you can use single- and/or double-quotes to preserve spaces in an
+argument (but not backslashes).  Note that doubling a single-quote
+inside a single-quoted string gives you a single-quote; likewise for
+double-quotes (though you need to pay attention to which quotes your
+shell is parsing and which quotes rsync is parsing).  Some examples:
 
-quote(tt(   -e "ssh -p 2234"))
+quote(
+tt(    -e 'ssh -p 2234')nl()
+tt(    -e 'ssh -o "ProxyCommand nohup ssh firewall nc -w1 %h %p"')nl()
+)
 
 (Note that ssh users can alternately customize site-specific connect
 options in their .ssh/config file.)
@@ -1298,11 +1307,9 @@ updated file into a holding directory until the end of the
 transfer, at which time all the files are renamed into place in rapid
 succession.  This attempts to make the updating of the files a little more
 atomic.  By default the files are placed into a directory named ".~tmp~" in
-each file's destination directory, but you can override this by specifying
-the bf(--partial-dir) option.  (Note that RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR has no effect
-on this value, nor is bf(--partial-dir) considered to be implied for the
-purposes of the daemon-config's "refuse options" setting.)
-Conflicts with bf(--inplace).
+each file's destination directory, but if you've specified the
+bf(--partial-dir) option, that directory will be used instead.
+Conflicts with bf(--inplace) and bf(--append).
 
 This option uses more memory on the receiving side (one bit per file
 transferred) and also requires enough free disk space on the receiving