diff --git a/sbin/raidctl/raidctl.8 b/sbin/raidctl/raidctl.8
index 29b30e12713d..fd209c32a444 100644
--- a/sbin/raidctl/raidctl.8
+++ b/sbin/raidctl/raidctl.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"     $NetBSD: raidctl.8,v 1.17 2000/02/26 19:43:07 oster Exp $
+.\"     $NetBSD: raidctl.8,v 1.18 2000/05/29 03:40:43 oster Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1998 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -444,7 +444,8 @@ required for the auto-detection and auto-configuration of RAID sets at
 boot time.  For a component label to be considered valid, that
 particular component label must be in agreement with the other
 component labels in the set.  For example, the serial number,
-'modification counter', number of rows and number of columns must all
+.Sq modification counter , 
+number of rows and number of columns must all
 be in agreement.  If any of these are different, then the component is
 not considered to be part of the set.  See
 .Xr raid 4