--- cpio-2.4.2/cpio.1.man	Tue Aug  8 11:52:42 2000
+++ cpio-2.4.2/cpio.1	Tue Aug  8 11:58:32 2000
@@ -152,7 +152,8 @@
 Set the I/O block size to BLOCK-SIZE * 512 bytes.
 .TP
 .I "\-c"
-Use the old portable (ASCII) archive format.
+Identical to "-H newc", use the new (SVR4) portable format.
+If you wish the old portable (ASCII) archive format, use "-H odc" instead.
 .TP
 .I "\-C IO-SIZE, \-\-io-size=IO-SIZE"
 Set the I/O block size to IO-SIZE bytes.