diff --git a/usr.bin/file/file.1 b/usr.bin/file/file.1
index 999d9e14b3a1..ba28b3f59b44 100644
--- a/usr.bin/file/file.1
+++ b/usr.bin/file/file.1
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .TH FILE 1 "Copyright but distributable"
-.\" $Id: file.1,v 1.1.1.4 1997/03/18 17:58:59 mpp Exp $
+.\" $Id: file.1,v 1.9 1997/03/18 19:37:17 mpp Exp $
 .SH NAME
 file \- determine file type
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ meaning anything else (data is usually `binary' or non-printable).
 Exceptions are well-known file formats (core files, tar archives)
 that are known to contain binary data.
 When modifying the file
-.I /etc/magic
+.I /usr/share/misc/magic
 or the program itself, 
 .B "preserve these keywords" .
 People depend on knowing that all the readable files in a directory
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ The concept of `magic number' has been applied by extension to data files.
 Any file with some invariant identifier at a small fixed
 offset into the file can usually be described in this way.
 The information in these files is read from the magic file
-.I /etc/magic.
+.I /usr/share/misc/magic.
 .PP
 If an argument appears to be an
 .SM ASCII 
@@ -135,8 +135,10 @@ option causes symlinks to be followed, as the like-named option in
 .BR ls (1).
 (on systems that support symbolic links).
 .SH FILES
+.I /usr/share/misc/magic
+\- default list of magic numbers (used to be
 .I /etc/magic
-\- default list of magic numbers
+in previous versions of FreeBSD)
 .SH ENVIRONMENT
 The environment variable
 .B MAGIC
@@ -201,7 +203,7 @@ If your old
 command uses a magic file,
 keep the old magic file around for comparison purposes
 (rename it to 
-.IR /etc/magic.orig ).
+.IR /usr/share/misc/magic.orig ).
 .SH HISTORY
 There has been a 
 .B file