diff --git a/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1 b/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1
index cdc9c11aded9..fc22fe1cdca3 100644
--- a/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1
+++ b/usr.bin/pkill/pkill.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: pkill.1,v 1.4 2002/03/02 12:20:53 jdolecek Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: pkill.1,v 1.5 2002/03/04 12:58:03 ad Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -186,9 +186,10 @@ An internal error occurred.
 .Nm pkill
 and
 .Nm pgrep
-utilities first appeared in Sun Solaris 2.6. This independant
-implementation first appeared in
+first appeared in
 .Nx 1.6 .
+They are modelled after utilities of the same name that appeared in Sun
+Solaris 2.7.
 .Sh AUTHORS
 .An Andrew Doran
 .Aq ad@netbsd.org