diff --git a/sbin/mknod/mknod.8 b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
index 7a1517d865a7..21f211e17546 100644
--- a/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
+++ b/sbin/mknod/mknod.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: mknod.8,v 1.15 1998/09/11 07:20:48 mycroft Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: mknod.8,v 1.16 1998/11/24 22:55:23 christos Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -54,10 +54,13 @@
 .Ar name
 .Op Cm c | Cm b
 .Ar number
+.Nm ""
+.Ar name
+.Cm p
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm
-command creates device special files.
+command creates device special files, or fifos.
 Normally the shell script
 .Pa /dev/MAKEDEV
 is used to create special files for commonly known devices; it executes
@@ -74,7 +77,7 @@ Device name, for example
 for a SCSI disk on an HP300 or a
 .Dq pty
 for pseudo-devices.
-.It Cm b | Cm c
+.It Cm b | Cm c | Cm p
 Type of device. If the
 device is a block type device such as a tape or disk drive which needs
 both cooked and raw special files,
@@ -83,6 +86,9 @@ the type is
 All other devices are character type devices, such as terminal
 and pseudo devices, and are type
 .Cm c .
+Specifying
+.Cm p
+creates fifo files.
 .It Ar major
 The major device number is an integer number which tells the kernel
 which device driver entry point to use.  To learn what
@@ -91,11 +97,11 @@ major device number to use for a particular device, check the file
 to see if the device is known, or check
 the system dependent device configuration file:
 .Bd -filled -offset indent
-.Dq Pa /usr/src/sys/conf/device. Ns Em architecture
+.Dq Pa /usr/src/sys/<arch>/<arch>/conf.c
 .Ed
 .Pp
 (for example
-.Pa device.hp300 ) .
+.Pa /usr/src/sys/vax/vax/conf.c ) .
 .It Ar minor
 The minor device number tells the kernel which one of several similar
 devices the node corresponds to; for example, it may be a specific serial