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diff --git a/term-utils/mesg.1 b/term-utils/mesg.1
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--- a/term-utils/mesg.1
+++ b/term-utils/mesg.1
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ should be executed in your login scripts.
.PP
The
.B mesg
-utility silently exits with error status 2 if the current standard error output does
-not refer to the terminal. In this case execute
+utility silently exits with error status 2 if not executed on terminal. In this
+case execute
.B mesg
is pointless. The command line option \fB\-\-verbose\fR forces
mesg to print a warning in this situation. This behaviour has been introduced