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   users or for some types of custom fuzzing setups. See [README.md](README.md) for the general
   instruction manual.
 
+  Note that most tools will warn on any unknown AFL environment variables.
+  This is for warning on typos that can happen. If you want to disable this
+  check then set the `AFL_IGNORE_UNKNOWN_ENVS` environment variable.
+
 ## 1) Settings for all compilers
 
 Starting with afl++ 3.0 there is only one compiler: afl-cc
@@ -18,7 +22,6 @@ To select the different instrumentation modes this can be done by
 `MODE` can be one of `LTO` (afl-clang-lto*), `LLVM` (afl-clang-fast*), `GCC_PLUGIN`
 (afl-g*-fast) or `GCC` (afl-gcc/afl-g++).
 
-
 Because (with the exception of the --afl-MODE command line option) the
 compile-time tools do not accept afl specific command-line options, they
 make fairly broad use of environmental variables instead: