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diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3
index 232419f4363..7cde50b410d 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: fopen.3,v 1.10 2000/10/18 14:33:36 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: fopen.3,v 1.11 2000/12/24 00:30:58 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn fopen
-function
-opens the file whose name is the string pointed to by
+function opens the file whose name is the string pointed to by
.Fa path
and associates a stream with it.
.Pp
@@ -134,8 +133,7 @@ is not affected in any way.
.Pp
The
.Fn freopen
-function
-opens the file whose name is the string pointed to by
+function opens the file whose name is the string pointed to by
.Fa path
and associates the stream pointed to by
.Fa stream
@@ -150,9 +148,7 @@ argument is used just as in the
function.
The primary use of the
.Fn freopen
-function
-is to change the file associated with a
-standard text stream
+function is to change the file associated with a standard text stream
.Pf ( Em stderr ,
.Em stdin ,
or
@@ -189,32 +185,28 @@ The
.Fn fdopen
and
.Fn freopen
-functions
-may also fail and set
+functions may also fail and set
.Va errno
for any of the errors specified for the routine
.Xr malloc 3 .
.Pp
The
.Fn fopen
-function
-may also fail and set
+function may also fail and set
.Va errno
for any of the errors specified for the routine
.Xr open 2 .
.Pp
The
.Fn fdopen
-function
-may also fail and set
+function may also fail and set
.Va errno
for any of the errors specified for the routine
.Xr fcntl 2 .
.Pp
The
.Fn freopen
-function
-may also fail and set
+function may also fail and set
.Va errno
for any of the errors specified for the routines
.Xr open 2 ,
@@ -231,13 +223,11 @@ The
.Fn fopen
and
.Fn freopen
-functions
-conform to
+functions conform to
.St -ansiC .
The
.Fn fdopen
-function
-conforms to
+function conforms to
.St -p1003.1-88 .
.Sh CAVEATS
Proper code using