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diff --git a/sbin/kbd/kbd.8 b/sbin/kbd/kbd.8
index 32e76e2bd57..36bd91d3a30 100644
--- a/sbin/kbd/kbd.8
+++ b/sbin/kbd/kbd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: kbd.8,v 1.11 2007/05/31 19:19:45 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: kbd.8,v 1.12 2009/05/06 19:13:26 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Juergen Hannken-Illjes
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 6 2009 $
.Dt KBD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm kbd
-.Nd "set national keyboard translation"
+.Nd set national keyboard translation
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm kbd
.Fl l
@@ -45,25 +45,27 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is used to change the keyboard encoding.
+The encoding is set to national keyboard layout
+.Ar name ,
+and a short message is printed to stdout.
+.Pp
The execution of
.Nm
normally occurs in the system multi-user initialization file
.Pa /etc/rc
-to set a national keyboard layout.
-.Pp
-If called as
-.Nm
-.Fl l ,
-all available keyboard encodings are listed.
+using the encoding defined in
+.Pa /etc/kbdtype .
.Pp
-If called as
-.Nm
-.Ar name ,
-the keyboard encoding will be set to
-.Ar name
-and a short message will be printed to stdout.
-If the
-.Fl q
-flag is present,
-.Nm
-will be quiet unless an error occurs.
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl l
+List all available keyboard encodings.
+.It Fl q
+Quiet mode.
+No message is printed unless an error occurs.
+.El
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width "/etc/kbdtypeXXX"
+.It /etc/kbdtype
+Default national encoding.
+.El