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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-08-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ * coreutils.texi (dd invocation): Warn about oflag=append without
+ conv=notrunc. See Debian bug 373736.
+
2006-08-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* coreutils.texi (shuf invocation, Random sources): New sections.
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 5a497614f..bf4d32f37 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
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@@ -7302,6 +7302,9 @@ system.
Write in append mode, so that even if some other process is writing to
this file, every @command{dd} write will append to the current
contents of the file. This flag makes sense only for output.
+If you combine this flag with the @samp{of=@var{file}} operand,
+you should also specify @samp{conv=notrunc} unless you want the
+output file to be truncated before being appended to.
@item direct
@opindex direct