--- ssed-3.62.orig/doc/sed.texi
+++ ssed-3.62/doc/sed.texi
@@ -3078,7 +3078,9 @@
Note that octal values of 100 or greater must not be introduced
duced by a leading zero, because no more than three octal
-digits are ever read.
+digits are ever read. Note that this applies only to the LHS
+pattern; it is not possible yet to specify more than 9 backreferences
+on the RHS of the `s' command.
All the sequences that define a single byte value can be
used both inside and outside character classes. In addition,
@@ -3734,6 +3736,9 @@
reference. If the @code{X} modifier option is set, this can be
whitespace. Otherwise an empty comment can be used, or the
following character can be expressed in hexadecimal or octal.
+Note that this applies only to the LHS pattern; it is
+not possible yet to specify more than 9 backreferences on the
+RHS of the `s' command.
A back reference that occurs inside the parentheses to which
it refers fails when the subpattern is first used, so, for