From b8a693ed68d6e7e7495187de835b73fd798b2d3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tg <tg@mirbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:32:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] mention ${foo:2:3} limitations

---
 mksh.1 | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mksh.1 b/mksh.1
index 52457fe..a4a70c3 100644
--- a/mksh.1
+++ b/mksh.1
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.\" $MirOS: src/bin/mksh/mksh.1,v 1.91 2007/07/06 02:22:56 tg Exp $
+.\" $MirOS: src/bin/mksh/mksh.1,v 1.92 2007/07/26 13:32:16 tg Exp $
 .\" $OpenBSD: ksh.1,v 1.120 2007/05/31 20:47:44 otto Exp $
 .\"
-.Dd July 5, 2007
+.Dd July 26, 2007
 .Dt MKSH 1
 .Os MirBSD
 .Sh NAME
@@ -1264,6 +1264,9 @@ Both
 and
 .Ar len
 are evaluated as arithmetic expressions.
+Currently,
+.Ar pos
+must start with a space, opening parenthesis or digit to be recognised.
 .El
 .Pp
 The following special parameters are implicitly set by the shell and cannot be