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considered to be whitespace for these purposes.
.TP
.I "special characters"
-There are three special characters. The
+There are three special characters. The
.RB ` # '
character, if it appears at the start of a word, introduces a
.I comment
Controls the behaviour if the output file already exists. If
.BR no ,
an error is reported. If
-.B truncate
+.B truncate
(the default), the existing file is replaced by the new data. If
.BR append ,
the new data is appended to the file.
Note that the shell command or program name string must, if present,
have any delimiter characters (including
.RB ` / '
-and
+and
.RB ` . ')
quoted; this is not required in the
.RB ` [ '-enclosed
.RB [ = ]
.BR yes | no
.OD
-Whether to log incoming connections. If
+Whether to log incoming connections. If
.B yes
(the default) incoming connections are logged, together with information
about the client (where available) and whether the connection was
.I dropped
privileges after initialization (the
.B \-s
-option). Before dropping privileges,
+option). Before dropping privileges,
.B fw
forks off a separate process which continues to run with root
privileges, and on demand passes sockets bound to privileged ports and