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@@ -3,15 +3,13 @@
 .LV Expert
 .SY "xdump <TYPE|NUMBER> <RECORDS>"
 .SY "xdump meta <TYPE|NUMBER>"
-.SY "xdump ver"
-.SY "xdump meta ver"
 The xdump command displays information on game configuration and state
 in machine readable format.  It is intended for use by clients and
 tools.  This info page gives an overview; see doc/xdump in the source
 distribution for complete documentation.
 .s1
 Game configuration and state consists of a a number of tables or
-files.  xdump shows only things that are \fIcertainly\fP visible to
+files.  xdump shows only things that are \*(fIcertainly\*(fP visible to
 you: sectors you own, ship types known, etc.
 .s1
 The output of xdump is a table consisting of a header line, the table
@@ -38,7 +36,7 @@ Floating-point fields can be parsed by scanf %g (or equivalents %e,
 .s1
 String fields are in C syntax.  Funny characters including space,
 newline and double-quote are shown as octal escape sequences.  Example:
-"gold\\040mine".  If a field starts with a double-quote, it's a string
+"gold\e040mine".  If a field starts with a double-quote, it's a string
 field.
 .s1
 .L "FUTURE DIRECTIONS:"
@@ -85,10 +83,6 @@ The table \*Qtable\*U is the table of (non-meta-)tables.  It contains
 table names and numbers.  xdump accepts table numbers as well as
 names.
 .s1
-There's a special pseudo-table \*Qver\*U, which collects configuration
-parameters in a single record.  It is not listed in \*Qtable\*U, it
-doesn't have a table number, but it does have a meta-table.
-.s1
 .L BUGS:
 Still missing are game state files power, map, bmap; the list of
 commands; foreign levels, contact
@@ -99,6 +93,8 @@ yet available in human-readable form: the lost file, sect-chr selector
 nav, ship and land plague status (deity only), plane theta (governs
 satellite movement), trade selectors xloc, yloc, commodity selectors
 xbuy, ybuy.
+Incremental dump doesn't work after importing news with the empdump
+utility.
 .s1
 .L "FUTURE DIRECTIONS:"
 xdump is still fairly new, and experience with it may lead to changes.