-.\" mcookie.1 --
+.\" mcookie.1 --
.\" Public Domain 1995 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.TH MCOOKIE 1 "25 September 1995" "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
mcookie \- generate magic cookies for xauth
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.BI "mcookie [\-v] [\-f " filename " ]"
+.B mcookie
+.RB [ \-v ]
+.RB [ \-f
+.IR filename ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mcookie
generates a 128-bit random hexadecimal number for use with the X authority
.RE
.PP
The "random" number generated is actually the output of the MD5 message
-digest fed with various piece of random information: the current time, the
+digest fed with various pieces of random information: the current time, the
process id, the parent process id, the contents of an input file (if
.B \-f
is specified), and several bytes of information from the first of the