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diff --git a/guestfish-actions.pod b/guestfish-actions.pod
index 62be2a9..04343af 100644
--- a/guestfish-actions.pod
+++ b/guestfish-actions.pod
@@ -591,6 +591,17 @@ This returns the verbose messages flag.
 This command installs GRUB (the Grand Unified Bootloader) on
 C<device>, with the root directory being C<root>.
 
+=head2 hexdump
+
+ hexdump path
+
+This runs C<hexdump -C> on the given C<path>.  The result is
+the human-readable, canonical hex dump of the file.
+
+Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit 
+of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB.  To transfer large files you should use
+FTP.
+
 =head2 is-busy
 
  is-busy
@@ -1043,6 +1054,35 @@ C<path> should be a file or directory in the mounted file system
 
 This is the same as the C<statvfs(2)> system call.
 
+=head2 strings
+
+ strings path
+
+This runs the L<strings(1)> command on a file and returns
+the list of printable strings found.
+
+Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit 
+of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB.  To transfer large files you should use
+FTP.
+
+=head2 strings-e
+
+ strings-e encoding path
+
+This is like the C<strings> command, but allows you to
+specify the encoding.
+
+See the L<strings(1)> manpage for the full list of encodings.
+
+Commonly useful encodings are C<l> (lower case L) which will
+show strings inside Windows/x86 files.
+
+The returned strings are transcoded to UTF-8.
+
+Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit 
+of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB.  To transfer large files you should use
+FTP.
+
 =head2 sync
 
  sync
@@ -1193,6 +1233,11 @@ As a special case, if C<size> is C<0>
 then the length is calculated using C<strlen> (so in this case
 the content cannot contain embedded ASCII NULs).
 
+I<NB.> Owing to a bug, writing content containing ASCII NUL
+characters does I<not> work, even if the length is specified.
+We hope to resolve this bug in a future version.  In the meantime
+use C<upload>.
+
 Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit 
 of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB.  To transfer large files you should use
 FTP.