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diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/man/terminfo.head b/contrib/ncurses/man/terminfo.head
index 28006d3b68c7..7455675ab953 100644
--- a/contrib/ncurses/man/terminfo.head
+++ b/contrib/ncurses/man/terminfo.head
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
.\" authorization. *
.\"***************************************************************************
.\"
-.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.13 2006/05/13 15:35:45 tom Exp $
-.TH TERMINFO 5 "" "" "File Formats"
+.\" $Id: terminfo.head,v 1.16 2007/03/04 00:09:46 tom Exp $
+.TH terminfo 5 "" "" "File Formats"
.ds n 5
.ds d @TERMINFO@
.SH NAME
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ version @NCURSES_MAJOR@.@NCURSES_MINOR@ (patch @NCURSES_PATCH@).
Entries in
.I terminfo
consist of a sequence of `,' separated fields (embedded commas may be
-escaped with a backslash or notated as \e054).
+escaped with a backslash or notated as \\054).
White space after the `,' separator is ignored.
The first entry for each terminal gives the names which are known for the
terminal, separated by `|' characters.
@@ -62,14 +62,14 @@ All names but the last should be in lower case and contain no blanks;
the last name may well contain upper case and blanks for readability.
.PP
Lines beginning with a `#' in the first column are treated as comments.
-While comment lines are legal at any point, the output of \fIcaptoinfo\fP
-and \fIinfotocap\fP (aliases for \fItic\fP)
+While comment lines are legal at any point, the output of \fB@CAPTOINFO@\fP
+and \fB@INFOTOCAP@\fP (aliases for \fB@TIC@\fP)
will move comments so they occur only between entries.
.PP
Newlines and leading tabs may be used for formatting entries for readability.
These are removed from parsed entries.
-The \fIinfocmp\ -f\fP option relies on this to format if-then-else expressions:
-the result can be read by \fItic\fP.
+The \fB@INFOCMP@\ -f\fP option relies on this to format if-then-else expressions:
+the result can be read by \fB@TIC@\fP.
.PP
Terminal names (except for the last, verbose entry) should
be chosen using the following conventions.