diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
index e10dbe701cac..555657236337 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.122 2003/09/28 13:18:41 dsl Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.123 2003/10/15 20:04:48 wiz Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ The
 field is always a NUL terminated string.
 The
 .Va d_bmajor
-field will be set to -1 if the driver doesn't have a block device.
+field will be set to \-1 if the driver doesn't have a block device.
 .It Li KERN_FILE
 Return the entire file table.
 The returned data consists of a single
@@ -666,7 +666,8 @@ Structure giving the sizes of the above arrays.
 .It Li KERN_RAWPARTITION
 The raw partition of a disk (a == 0).
 .It Li KERN_ROOT_DEVICE
-The name of the root device (eg: "wd0").
+The name of the root device (e.g.,
+.Dq wd0 ) .
 .It Li KERN_ROOT_PARTITION
 The root partition on the root device (a == 0).
 .It Li KERN_RTC_OFFSET