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diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 0672c4e404..e522b3d036 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -1225,6 +1225,13 @@ the script. C<$#ARGV> is generally the number of arguments minus
one, because C<$ARGV[0]> is the first argument, I<not> the program's
command name itself. See C<$0> for the command name.
+=item ARGVOUT
+
+The special filehandle that points to the currently open output file
+when doing edit-in-place processing with B<-i>. Useful when you have
+to do a lot of inserting and don't want to keep modifying $_. See
+L<perlrun> for the B<-i> switch.
+
=item @F
The array @F contains the fields of each line read in when autosplit