diff --git a/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1 b/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1
index aa3c83d66389..1a880b1b6179 100644
--- a/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1
+++ b/external/historical/nawk/bin/awk.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: awk.1,v 1.20 2022/07/05 15:21:39 uwe Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: awk.1,v 1.21 2022/07/05 15:27:14 uwe Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (C) Lucent Technologies 1997
 .\" All Rights Reserved
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ is the Bell Labs' implementation of the AWK programming language as
 described in the
 .Em The AWK Programming Language
 by
-A. V. Aho, B. W. Kernighan, and P. J. Weinberger.
+A.V.\~Aho, B.W.\~Kernighan, P.\^J.\~Weinberger.
 .Pp
 .Nm
 scans each input
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ Print an error message to standard error:
 .Xr strftime 3 ,
 .Xr time 3
 .Pp
-A. V. Aho, B. W. Kernighan, P. J. Weinberger,
+A.\^V.\~Aho, B.\^W.\~Kernighan, P.\^J.\~Weinberger,
 .Em The AWK Programming Language ,
 Addison-Wesley, 1988.
 ISBN 0-201-07981-X