diff -Nur pax-3.3.orig/src/pax.1 pax-3.3-doc/src/pax.1
--- pax-3.3.orig/src/pax.1	2003-03-13 06:12:35.000000000 +1000
+++ pax-3.3-doc/src/pax.1	2003-04-22 15:15:50.000000000 +1000
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@
 .It Ar tar
 The old BSD tar format as found in BSD4.3.
 The default blocksize for this format is 10240 bytes.
-Pathnames stored by this format must be 100 characters or less in length.
+Pathnames stored by this format must be 99 characters or less in length.
 Only
 .Em regular
 files,
@@ -738,7 +738,9 @@
 .St -p1003.2
 standard.
 The default blocksize for this format is 10240 bytes.
-Pathnames stored by this format must be 250 characters or less in length.
+Filenames stored by this format, not including the directory prefix, can
+not be more than 99 characters in length.  The directory prefix can not be
+more than 155 characters in length.
 .El
 .Pp
 .Nm