diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/porting.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/porting.sgml
index 34541fa4f8ff..0af77f0c8ba9 100644
--- a/share/doc/handbook/porting.sgml
+++ b/share/doc/handbook/porting.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.52 1996/12/30 21:33:38 jfieber Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.53 1997/01/01 22:39:12 obrien Exp $ -->
 <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
 
 <sect1><heading>Porting an existing piece of free software<label id="porting"></heading>
@@ -957,9 +957,11 @@ MAN8=      baz.8
 
 	<p>If your port anchors its man tree somewhere other than 
 	   <tt>PREFIX</tt>, you can use the <tt>MANPREFIX</tt> to set it.
-	   Also, if only some of the manpages go in a non-standard place,
-	   such as many Perl modules ports, you can set individual man
-	   paths using <tt>MAN%cPREFIX</tt> (where %c=[1-9LN]).
+	   Also, if only manpages in certain section go in a
+	   non-standard place, such as many Perl modules ports, you
+	   can set individual man paths using
+	   <tt>MAN<em>sect</em>PREFIX</tt> (where <em>sect</em> is one
+	   of 1-9, L or N]).
 
       <sect3>
 	<heading>INSTALL_* macros</heading>