Testsuite: avoid total fail on DISABLE_EVENT build

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@@ -301,6 +301,11 @@ There are some options for the ./runtest script itself:
   -SLOW     For very slow hosts that appear to have Heisenbugs, delay before
             comparing output files from a testcase
 
+  -TLS <client>  For cross-library testing. Specify 'openssl" or 'gnutls'
+            as the client; the other is used as the server (assumes that
+           both have been built: set up Local/Makefile for OpenSSL and
+           "make exim_openssl", then for GnuTLS and "make exim_gnutls")
+
 The options for ./runtest must be given first (but after the name of the
 binary, if present). Any further options, that is, items on the command line
 that start with a hyphen, are passed to the Exim binary when it is run as part
@@ -676,7 +681,12 @@ script. For example:
   # -bS Use of HELO/RSET
 
 A line consisting just of digits is interpreted as the expected return code
-for the command that follows. The default expectation when no such line exists
+for the command that follows.
+
+A line consisting of a tilde (~) followed by digits indicates a non-expected
+return code for the command that follows.
+
+The default expectation when neither such line exists
 is a zero return code. For example, here is a complete test script, containing
 just one command:
 
@@ -696,6 +706,17 @@ be replaced by the local host's name. Long commands can be continued over
 several lines by using \ as a continuation character. This does *not* apply to
 data lines.
 
+A line with a leading number followed by a space and then an uppercase
+word, equals character, value sets an expected return code as above
+plus an environment variable.  Example:
+
+  255 TZ=GB
+  exim_msgdate -l -u -z -localhost_number=20 000000 1PANS3 ZZZZZZ
+  ****
+
+
+
+
 Here follows a list of supported commands. They can be divided into two groups:
 
 
@@ -747,6 +768,12 @@ This command runs the exigrep utility with the given data (the search pattern)
 on the current mainlog file.
 
 
+  exiqgrep <data>
+
+This command runs the exiqgrep utility with the given options
+on the current spool directory.
+
+
   gnutls
 
 This command is present at the start of all but one of the tests that use
@@ -814,6 +841,14 @@ are still in existence at the end of the run (for messages that were not
 delivered) are not compared with saved versions.
 
 
+  no_munge
+
+If this command is encountered anywhere in the script, the output is not
+munged before it is compared with a saved version.
+This option allows meaningful tests of the exim_msgdate utility;
+without it all date comparison checks would succeed.
+
+
   no_stderr_check
 
 If this command is encountered anywhere in the script, the stderr output from
@@ -1120,7 +1155,7 @@ are of the following kinds:
     before proceeding.
 
 (3) A line containing "*data" and a number specifies that the client is
-    expected to send that many byte; the server discards them
+    expected to send that many bytes; the server discards them
 
 (4) A line containing "*eof" specifies that the client is expected to close
     the connection at this point.