diff --git a/sm5/smartctl.8 b/sm5/smartctl.8
index 01ab6b1c19ff648e56d91e984332f17e6713bb58..655a22a9a333537c195256679595af571c9d4c13 100644
--- a/sm5/smartctl.8
+++ b/sm5/smartctl.8
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 \# Copyright (C) 2002 Bruce Allen <smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net>
 \#
-\# $Id: smartctl.8,v 1.30 2002/12/28 16:16:52 pjwilliams Exp $
+\# $Id: smartctl.8,v 1.31 2003/01/01 08:21:00 ballen4705 Exp $
 \# 
 \# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 \# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 \# Research Center), Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of
 \# California, Santa Cruz. http://ssrc.soe.ucsc.edu/
 \#
-.TH SMARTCTL 8  "$Date: 2002/12/28 16:16:52 $" "smartmontools-5.0"
+.TH SMARTCTL 8  "$Date: 2003/01/01 08:21:00 $" "smartmontools-5.0"
 .SH NAME
 smartctl \- S.M.A.R.T. control and monitor utility 
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -310,7 +310,10 @@ attributes are numbered from 1 to 253 and have specific names. For
 example attribute 12 is 'power cycle count': how many times has the
 disk been powered up.  Each attribute has a 'Raw' value, printed under
 the heading 'Raw Value', and a 'Normalized' value printed under the
-heading 'Value'.  Each vendor uses their own magic to convert the Raw
+heading 'Value'.  [Note: 
+.B smartctl
+prints these values in base-10.]
+Each vendor uses their own magic to convert the Raw
 value to a Normalized value.  If the Normalized value is
 .B less than or equal to
 the value given under the 'Threshold' column, then disk failure
@@ -618,4 +621,4 @@ Please let us know if there is an on\-line source for this document.
 
 .SH
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-$Id: smartctl.8,v 1.30 2002/12/28 16:16:52 pjwilliams Exp $
+$Id: smartctl.8,v 1.31 2003/01/01 08:21:00 ballen4705 Exp $