(2) If a line starts with three plus signs followed by a space, the rest of the
line specifies a number of seconds to sleep for before proceeding.
-(3) Otherwise, the line is an input line line that is sent to the server. Any
+(3) If a line begins with three '>' characters and a space, the rest of the
+ line is input to be sent to the server. Backslash escaping is done as
+ described below, but no trailing "\r\n" is sent.
+
+(4) Otherwise, the line is an input line line that is sent to the server. Any
occurrences of \r and \n in the line are turned into carriage return and
linefeed, respectively. This is used for testing PIPELINING.
+ Any sequences of \x followed by two hex digits are converted to the equvalent
+ byte value. Any other character following a \ is sent verbatim.
Here is a simple example: