diff --git a/bin/pax/options.c b/bin/pax/options.c
index 37848882b4e9..2b19a63bc59a 100644
--- a/bin/pax/options.c
+++ b/bin/pax/options.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$NetBSD: options.c,v 1.59 2003/01/15 21:56:46 kristerw Exp $	*/
+/*	$NetBSD: options.c,v 1.60 2003/01/19 01:13:46 wiz Exp $	*/
 
 /*-
  * Copyright (c) 1992 Keith Muller.
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 #if 0
 static char sccsid[] = "@(#)options.c	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/18/94";
 #else
-__RCSID("$NetBSD: options.c,v 1.59 2003/01/15 21:56:46 kristerw Exp $");
+__RCSID("$NetBSD: options.c,v 1.60 2003/01/19 01:13:46 wiz Exp $");
 #endif
 #endif /* not lint */
 
@@ -735,7 +735,6 @@ struct option tar_longopts[] = {
 						OPT_IGNORE_FAILED_READ },
 	{ "keep-old-files",	no_argument,		0,	'k' },
 	{ "starting-file",	no_argument,		0,	'K' },
-	/* XXX: Conflicts with current -L */
 	{ "tape-length",	required_argument,	0,	'L' },
 	{ "multi-volume",	no_argument,		0,	'M' },
 	{ "after-date",		required_argument,	0,	'N' },
diff --git a/bin/pax/tar.1 b/bin/pax/tar.1
index 8f9d98fbb853..896ae55edf18 100644
--- a/bin/pax/tar.1
+++ b/bin/pax/tar.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: tar.1,v 1.6 2002/11/06 14:56:48 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: tar.1,v 1.7 2003/01/19 01:13:46 wiz Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1996 SigmaSoft, Th. Lockert
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -210,14 +210,6 @@ This argument and its parameter may also appear in a file list specified by
 .Fl T .
 .It Fl H
 Follow symlinks given on command line only.
-.It Fl L
-Follow all symlinks.
-.Em Warning!
-This flag has the opposite meaning in some other versions of
-.Nm tar ,
-including the one in AT\*[Am]T Bell Labs Research Tenth Edition, and its
-meaning is completely different and unrelated to symlinks in GNU Tar.
-.\" No wonder the world needs Pax!
 .It Fl P , -absolute-paths
 Do not strip leading slashes
 .Pq Sq /
@@ -307,8 +299,3 @@ command first appeared in
 .At v7 .
 .Sh AUTHORS
 Keith Muller at the University of California, San Diego.
-.Sh BUGS
-The
-.Fl L
-flag is not portable to other versions of
-.Nm tar .