diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1
index 1ccd62df1387..7dbf692ff919 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 .\"	Written by John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
 .\"	Updated by Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
 .\"
-.\"	$Id: tar.1,v 1.15 1998/06/04 21:05:36 steve Exp $
+.\"	$Id: tar.1,v 1.16 1998/07/09 04:28:19 jkoshy Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd 25 August 1997
 .Os FreeBSD
@@ -438,6 +438,8 @@ The
 feature does not work like historical tar programs, and is probably
 untrustworthy.
 .Pp
-The -A command should work to join an arbitrary number of tar archives
+The 
+.Fl A 
+command should work to join an arbitrary number of tar archives
 together, but it does not; attempting to do so leaves the
 end-of-archive blocks in place for the second and subsequent archives.