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diff --git a/src/xz/xz.1 b/src/xz/xz.1
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+++ b/src/xz/xz.1
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" This file has been put into the public domain.
.\" You can do whatever you want with this file.
.\"
-.TH XZ 1 "2022-11-09" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
+.TH XZ 1 "2022-11-19" "Tukaani" "XZ Utils"
.
.SH NAME
xz, unxz, xzcat, lzma, unlzma, lzcat \- Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files
@@ -1214,6 +1214,25 @@ even if the system supports only one hardware thread.
5.2.x
used single-threaded mode in this situation.)
.IP ""
+To use multi-threaded mode with only one thread, set
+.I threads
+to
+.BR +1 .
+The
+.B +
+prefix has no effect with values other than
+.BR 1 .
+A memory usage limit can still make
+.B xz
+switch to single-threaded mode unless
+.B \-\-no\-adjust
+is used.
+Support for the
+.B +
+prefix was added in
+.B xz
+5.4.0.
+.IP ""
If an automatic number of threads has been requested and
no memory usage limit has been specified,
then a system-specific default soft limit will be used to possibly