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diff --git a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.5 b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.5
index e531b7ad113..9b50f7dc080 100644
--- a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.5
+++ b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: uuencode.5,v 1.7 2002/08/06 15:26:04 soren Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: uuencode.5,v 1.8 2002/09/30 11:09:15 grant Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ Obviously, not every input file will be a multiple of three bytes in size.
In these cases,
.Xr uuencode 1
will pad the remaining one or two bytes of data with garbage bytes until
-a three byte group is created. The byte count in a line containing
+a three byte group is created.
+The byte count in a line containing
garbage padding will reflect the actual number of bytes encoded, making
it possible to convey how many bytes are garbage.
.Pp