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@@ -721,7 +721,10 @@ text, a cluster to a cell, is apart from this.) A click in a
tag gives offsets into the whole tag as `tag` reads it, the path first.) An
open freezes the ring's text the way `/screen` freezes a frame: reads walk it
and end. Writing `follow` to that same open makes reads past it wait for the
-next record, one per read; a follower the ring outran reads `lost N` first.
+next record, one per read, after first reading all that the open froze (the
+ring's whole history, up to 64 KiB); `follow new` skips that and waits for
+what comes after, as `tail -n0 -f` does. A follower the ring outran reads
+`lost N` first.
Closing the open is the only way back, as with rio's `consctl`. A follower
misses nothing within a session only: a Restore hangs its connection up
(and a 9ns mount with it, which must be restarted), so it dials again and