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index cf66324..10ae999 100644
--- a/build.1
+++ b/build.1
@@ -77,17 +77,9 @@ This means that you can keep state across multiple commands.
Note that all commands are executed
regardless of the exit status of previous commands.
.Pp
+If a command fails,
.Nm
-exits with a positive status if a command failed.
-Note that it checks the status
-of the entire command sent to the shell,
-not the individual command lines.
-To emulate the behavior of
-.Xr make 1 ,
-which fails if any individual command line fails,
-you can use
-.Ql set -e
-in your command line.
+exits with a positive status and aborts the build process.
.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Pp
@@ -120,8 +112,8 @@ Assuming that the file
starts with the following text,
.Bd -literal -offset indent
\&.\\" This document is built with the following shell commands:
-\&.\\" $ refer -p refs doc.t | troff -ms | dpost > doc.ps &&
-\&.\\" $ ps2pdf doc.ps > doc.pdf &&
+\&.\\" $ refer -p refs doc.t | troff -ms | dpost > doc.ps
+\&.\\" $ ps2pdf doc.ps > doc.pdf
\&.\\" $ rm doc.ps
\&.
\&.\\" Apart from this file, it depends on the following files: