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diff --git a/usr.sbin/chown/chown.8 b/usr.sbin/chown/chown.8
index 7546a4e..38372c2 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/chown/chown.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/chown/chown.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)chown.8 8.3 (Berkeley) 3/31/94
-.\" $Id: chown.8,v 1.4 1997/02/22 16:04:35 peter Exp $
+.\" $Id: chown.8,v 1.5 1997/03/31 13:03:47 peter Exp $
.\"
.Dd March 31, 1994
.Dt CHOWN 8
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
.Op Fl f
.Op Fl h
.Ar :group
-.Ar file ...
+.Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Chown
sets the user ID and/or the group ID of the specified files.
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ The options are as follows:
If the
.Fl R
option is specified, symbolic links on the command line are followed.
-(Symbolic links encountered in the tree traversal are not followed.)
+(Symbolic links encountered in the tree traversal are not followed).
.It Fl L
If the
.Fl R
@@ -122,11 +122,11 @@ The ownership of a file may only be altered by a super-user for
obvious security reasons.
.Pp
The
-.Nm chown
+.Nm
utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
Previous versions of the
-.Nm chown
+.Nm
utility used the dot (``.'') character to distinguish the group name.
This has been changed to be a colon (``:'') character so that user and
group names may contain the dot character.
@@ -141,8 +141,10 @@ owners.
.Xr symlink 7
.Sh STANDARDS
The
-.Nm chown
-command is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compliant.
+.Nm
+command is expected to be
+.St -p1003.2
+compliant.
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm
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