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diff --git a/man/mhfixmsg.man b/man/mhfixmsg.man
index de5cc611..3bb8e84e 100644
--- a/man/mhfixmsg.man
+++ b/man/mhfixmsg.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MHFIXMSG %manext1% "November 19, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH MHFIXMSG %manext1% "November 30, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
@@ -149,12 +149,28 @@ and other
 .B nmh
 programs that parse MIME messages.
 .PP
+.B mhfixmsg
+applies one transformation unconditionally:  it removes an extraneous
+trailing semicolon from the parameter lists of MIME header fields.
+.PP
 The
 .B \-verbose
 switch directs
 .B mhfixmsg
 to output informational message for each transformation applied.
 .PP
+The return status of
+.B mhfixmsg
+is 0 if all of the requested transformations are performed, or
+non-zero otherwise.
+.RB ( mhfixmsg
+will not decode to binary content, but a request to do so is
+not considered a failure, and is noted with
+.BR \-verbose .)
+If a problem is detected with any one of multiple messages such that
+the return status is non-zero, then none of the messages will be
+modified.
+.PP
 The
 .B \-file
 .I file
@@ -262,12 +278,19 @@ call
 .B mhfixmsg
 immediately after a successful invocation of
 .BR inc .
-For example, with bash:
+One approach could be based on:
 .PP
 .RS 5
-alias inc='inc && mhfixmsg'
+msgs=`inc -format '%(msg)'`  &&  [ -n "$msgs" ]  &&  scan $msgs  &&  \
+mhfixmsg -nochangecur $msgs
 .RE
 .PP
+Another approach would rely on adding a sequence to Unseen-Sequence,
+which
+.B inc
+sets with the newly incorporated messages.  Those could then be
+supplied to
+.BR mhfixmsg .
 .SS "Integration with procmail"
 By way of example, here is an excerpt from a procmailrc file
 that filters messages through