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diff --git a/share/man/man8/sticky.8 b/share/man/man8/sticky.8
index 009f544e3404..d86f3c23892a 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/sticky.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/sticky.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)sticky.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
-.\" $Id: sticky.8,v 1.2 1997/03/07 03:28:21 jmg Exp $
+.\" $Id: sticky.8,v 1.3 1997/08/17 00:15:46 steve Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 5, 1993
.Dt STICKY 8
@@ -43,16 +43,13 @@ A special file mode, called the
.Em sticky bit
(mode S_ISVTX),
is used to indicate special treatment
-for shareable executable files and directories.
+for directories. It is ignored for regular files.
See
.Xr chmod 2
or
the file
.Pa /usr/include/sys/stat.h
for an explanation of file modes.
-.Sh STICKY TEXT EXECUTABLE FILES
-These are no longer supported and any attempt to create a sticky text
-executable will fail on UFS-based filesystems.
.Sh STICKY DIRECTORIES
A directory whose `sticky bit' is set
becomes an append-only directory, or, more accurately,