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diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/apm.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/apm.4
index a6a5685..ddce25e 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/apm.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/apm.4
@@ -20,33 +20,33 @@
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd device apm0 at nexus?
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm apm
+.Nm
is an interface to the Intel / Microsoft APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS
on laptop PCs.
.Pp
-.Nm apm
+.Nm
provides the following power management functions.
.Bl -enum -offset indent
.It
When the system wakes up from suspended mode,
-.Nm apm
+.Nm
adjusts the system clock to RTC.
.It
When the system wakes up from suspended mode,
-.Nm apm
+.Nm
passes a message to
.Xr syslogd 8
comprising of system wakeup time and elapsed time during suspended mode.
.It
-.Nm apm
+.Nm
slows CPU clock when there are no system activities (runnable processes,
interrupts, etc.). This function is available only on systems whose APM
supports CPU idling.
.It
-.Nm apm
+.Nm
exports an application interface as a character device. Applications
can control APM, or retrieve APM status information via this interface.
-.Nm apm
+.Nm
exports the following interfaces. These symbols are defined in
.Dq Pa /usr/include/machine/apm_bios.h.
.Bl -tag -width 4n -offset indent
@@ -79,13 +79,13 @@ does not execute HLT in
.Dq Pa Idle CPU.
On some implementations that do not support CPU clock slowdown, APM
might not execute HLT.
-.Nm apm
+.Nm
disables
.Sy APMIO_NOTHALTCPU
operation on such machines.
.Pp
The current version of
-.Nm apm
+.Nm
does not call
.Dq Pa Idle CPU
from the kernel context switch routine if clock slowdown is not supported,
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ no need to use these two operations in most cases.
These interfaces are used by
.Xr apm 8 .
.It
-.Nm apm
+.Nm
polls APM events and handles the following events.
.Bl -column PMEV_POWERSTATECHANGEXXX "suspend system xxxxx"
.It Sy "Name " "Action " "Description"
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ We are very interested in getting this code working, so please send you
observations of any anomalous behavior to us.
.Pp
When
-.Nm apm
+.Nm
is active, calling the BIOS setup routine by using hot-keys,
may cause serious trouble when resuming the system.
BIOS setup programs should be called during bootstrap, or from DOS.
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