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@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ to an environment requiring nothing except a bare kernel and BusyBox to play.
 
 Save files are named "[name].awlite", where "[name]" is the one you've entered
 during the save command. If you don't specify the name, a file called ".awlite"
-will be created.
+will be created. Save files are always silently overwritten, so be careful!
 Saves always go to the current working directory, i.e. the directory you've run
 the awlite.awk script from (which is not necessarily the one where it resides).
 This is the only truly cross-platform way to implement this functionality.