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--- pload.man.orig  Tue Feb  1 02:11:24 2000
+++ pload.man   Wed Sep 22 16:44:12 2004
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 .TH PLOAD 1 "" "January 2000"
 
 .SH NAME
-pload \- display ppp throughput statistics in an X window
+pload \- display network interface statistics in an X window
 
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .ta 6n
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
 [-iformat \fIfmt\fP] [-oformat \fIfmt\fP] 
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-The \fBpload\fP program displays information about network interface (ppp) statistics.
-Additionally, for Linux 2.2 it can display statistics for any interface that
-reports to /proc/net/dev .
+The \fBpload\fP program displays network throughput statistics in an X window
+Athena stripchart graph.
+On FreeBSD, \fBpload\fP can handle any network interface.
 
 .SH OPTIONS
 .PP
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
 .TP 8
 .B \-iformat \fIfmt\fP
 Use string \fIfmt\fP for the inbound label. The \fIfmt\fP string will be displayed
-literally with the special tags %t %r and %M expanding to the interface total, current
+literally with the special tags %d %t %r and %M expanding to the interface name, interface total, current
 rate, and maximum rate respectively. The default is "%t %r in".
 
 .TP 8