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@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ All connections between para_server and para_client are encrypted
 with a symmetric RC4 session key. For each user of paraslash you must
 create a public/secret RSA key pair for authentication.
 
+If para_client is started without non-option arguments, an interactive
+session (shell) is started. Command history and command completion are
+supported through libreadline.
 
 *para_audiod*
 
@@ -135,7 +138,8 @@ socket credentials, if available.
 
 The client program which talks to para_audiod. Used to control
 para_audiod, to receive status info, or to grab the stream at any
-point of the decoding process.
+point of the decoding process. Like para_client, para_audioc supports
+interactive sessions on systems with libreadline.
 
 *para_recv*
 
@@ -254,6 +258,10 @@ Optional:
        - XREFERENCE(http://www.speex.org/, speex). In order to stream
        or decode speex files, libspeex (libspeex-dev) is required.
 
+       - XREFERENCE(http://flac.sourceforge.net/, flac). To stream
+       or decode files encoded with the _Free Lossless Audio Codec_,
+       libFLAC (libFLAC-dev) must be installed.
+
        - XREFERENCE(ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/, alsa-lib). On
        Linux, you'll need to have ALSA's development package
        libasound2-dev installed.
@@ -262,6 +270,10 @@ Optional:
        libao). Needed to build the ao writer (ESD, PulseAudio,...).
        Debian package: libao-dev.
 
+       - XREFERENCE(http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html,
+       GNU Readline). If this library (libreadline-dev) is installed,
+       para_client and para_audioc support interactive sessions.
+
 Installation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -1111,6 +1123,15 @@ how meta data about the file is to be encoded. The bit stream of WMA
 is composed of superframes, each containing one or more frames of
 2048 samples. For 16 bit stereo a WMA superframe is about 8K large.
 
+*FLAC*
+
+The Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) compresses audio without quality
+loss. It gives better compression ratios than a general purpose
+compressor like zip or bzip2 because FLAC is designed specifically
+for audio. A FLAC-encoded file consits of frames of varying size, up
+to 16K. Each frame starts with a header that contains all information
+necessary to decode the frame.
+
 Meta data
 ~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -1123,10 +1144,10 @@ title, album, year and comment tags. Each of these can only be at most
 32 characters long. ID3, version 2 is much more flexible but requires
 a separate library being installed for paraslash to support it.
 
-Ogg vorbis files contain meta data as Vorbis comments, which are
-typically implemented as strings of the form "[TAG]=[VALUE]". Unlike
-ID3 version 1 tags, one may use whichever tags are appropriate for
-the content.
+Ogg vorbis, ogg speex and flac files contain meta data as Vorbis
+comments, which are typically implemented as strings of the form
+"[TAG]=[VALUE]". Unlike ID3 version 1 tags, one may use whichever
+tags are appropriate for the content.
 
 AAC files usually use the MPEG-4 container format for storing meta
 data while WMA files wrap meta data as special objects within the
@@ -1144,7 +1165,7 @@ paraslash uses the word "chunk" as common term for the building blocks
 of an audio file. For MP3 files, a chunk is the same as an MP3 frame,
 while for OGG files a chunk is an OGG page, etc.  Therefore the chunk
 size varies considerably between audio formats, from a few hundred
-bytes (MP3) up to 8K (WMA).
+bytes (MP3) up to 16K (FLAC).
 
 The chunk table contains the offsets within the audio file that
 correspond to the chunk boundaries of the file. Like the meta data,