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diff --git a/rc.1 b/rc.1
index 34ca5eb..12c1617 100644
--- a/rc.1
+++ b/rc.1
@@ -1859,6 +1859,14 @@ descendant
.IR rc
processes.
.PP
+There is a compile-time limit on the number of
+.Cr ;
+separated commands in a line: usually 500.
+This is sometimes a problem for automatically generated scripts:
+substituting the newline character for
+.Cr ;
+avoids the limit.
+.PP
On modern systems that support
.Cr /dev/fd
or