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diff --git a/bin/cat/cat.1 b/bin/cat/cat.1
index 3f0d5dd0a52..5b0c44e09d6 100644
--- a/bin/cat/cat.1
+++ b/bin/cat/cat.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: cat.1,v 1.11 1999/05/30 17:44:54 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: cat.1,v 1.12 1999/07/04 11:53:50 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: cat.1,v 1.12 1995/09/27 05:38:55 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ will print the contents of
.Ar file1 ,
print data it receives from the standard input until it receives an
.Dv EOF
-(^D) character, print the contents of
+.Pq Sq ^D
+character, print the contents of
.Ar file2 ,
read and output contents of the standard input again, then finally output
the contents of
@@ -155,9 +156,9 @@ the contents of
Note that if the standard input referred to a file, the second dash
on the command-line would have no effect, since the entire contents of the file
would have already been read and printed by
-.Nm cat
+.Nm
when it encountered the first
-.Dq \&-
+.Ql \&-
operand.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr head 1 ,