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diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/popen.3 b/lib/libc/gen/popen.3
index 7795a02b14f..aaf07b5c457 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/popen.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/popen.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: popen.3,v 1.4 1999/05/29 20:07:14 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: popen.3,v 1.5 1999/05/29 22:38:35 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ the resulting stream is correspondingly read-only or write-only.
.Pp
The
.Fa command
-argument is a pointer to a
-.Dv NULL Ns -terminated
+argument is a pointer to a NUL-terminated
string containing a shell command line.
This command is passed to
.Pa /bin/sh
@@ -70,8 +69,7 @@ using the
flag; interpretation, if any, is performed by the shell.
The
.Fa mode
-argument is a pointer to a
-.Dv NULL Ns -terminated
+argument is a pointer to a NUL-terminated
string which must be either
.Qq r
for reading