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diff --git a/doc/fconfigure.n b/doc/fconfigure.n
index 526c5ad..3de22eb 100644
--- a/doc/fconfigure.n
+++ b/doc/fconfigure.n
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ locale-dependent system encoding used for interfacing with the operating
system, as returned by \fBencoding system\fR.
.RE
.TP
+\fB\-eofchar\fR \fIchar\fR
+.TP
\fB\-eofchar\fR \fB{\fIchar outChar\fB}\fR
.
This option supports DOS file systems that use Control-z (\ex1A) as an
@@ -111,8 +113,8 @@ If \fIchar\fR is the empty string, then there is no special end of file
character marker. For read-write channels, a two-element list specifies
the end of file marker for input and output, respectively. As a
convenience, when setting the end-of-file character for a read-write
-channel you can specify a single value that will apply to both reading
-and writing. When querying the end-of-file character of a read-write
+channel you can specify a single value that will apply to reading
+only. When querying the end-of-file character of a read-write
channel, a two-element list will always be returned. The default value
for \fB\-eofchar\fR is the empty string in all cases except for files
under Windows. In that case the \fB\-eofchar\fR is Control-z (\ex1A) for