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diff --git a/doc/man/sconsign.xml b/doc/man/sconsign.xml
index baa15e1..2f0d66c 100644
--- a/doc/man/sconsign.xml
+++ b/doc/man/sconsign.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
- Copyright (c) 2001 - 2017 The SCons Foundation
+ Copyright (c) 2001 - 2019 The SCons Foundation
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
@@ -25,15 +25,15 @@
-->
<!-- lifted from troff+man by doclifter -->
-<refentry id='sconsign1'
+<refentry id='sconsign1'
xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0 http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0/scons.xsd">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>SCONSIGN</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
-<refmiscinfo class='source'>SCons 3.0.0</refmiscinfo>
-<refmiscinfo class='manual'>SCons 3.0.0</refmiscinfo>
+<refmiscinfo class='source'>SCons 3.0.5</refmiscinfo>
+<refmiscinfo class='manual'>SCons 3.0.5</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv id='name'>
<refname>sconsign</refname>
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
<!-- body begins here -->
<refsynopsisdiv id='synopsis'>
<cmdsynopsis>
- <command>sconsign</command>
+ <command>sconsign</command>
<arg choice='opt' rep='repeat'><replaceable>options</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='plain'><replaceable>file</replaceable></arg>
<arg choice='opt'><replaceable>...</replaceable></arg>
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
<refsect1 id='description'><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
-<para>The
+<para>The
<command>sconsign</command>
command
displays the contents of one or more
@@ -94,17 +94,21 @@ was specified by the
function).
Any
<emphasis>file</emphasis>
-argument that does not end in
-<markup>.dbm</markup>
+argument that ends in
+<markup>.dblite</markup>
is assumed to be a traditional
<markup>.sconsign</markup>
file containing the signature entries
for a single directory.
-An explicit format
+If neither of those is true,
+<command>sconsign</command>
+attempts to guess the format.
+If that does not work,
+an explicit format
may be specified using the
<option>-f</option>
or
-<option>--file=</option>
+<option>--format=</option>
options.</para>
</refsect1>