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diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/pause.3 b/lib/libc/gen/pause.3
index 6f52ebb1e80..931463d0273 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/pause.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/pause.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: pause.3,v 1.7 1999/07/09 13:35:18 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: pause.3,v 1.8 2000/12/24 00:30:50 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -49,12 +49,9 @@ Pause is made obsolete by
.Pp
The
.Fn pause
-function
-forces a process to pause until
-a signal is received from either the
+function forces a process to pause until a signal is received from either the
.Xr kill 2
-function
-or an interval timer
+function or an interval timer
(see
.Xr setitimer 2 ) .
.Pp
@@ -83,6 +80,5 @@ The call was interrupted.
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Fn pause
-syscall
-appeared in
+syscall appeared in
.At v6 .