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diff --git a/man/mh-profile.man b/man/mh-profile.man
index 61cf70bf..2c1b3d7a 100644
--- a/man/mh-profile.man
+++ b/man/mh-profile.man
@@ -590,12 +590,6 @@ to display message bodies (or message parts) of type text/plain.
 supersedes the default built-in pager command.)
 .RE
 .PP
-.BR mshproc :
-%bindir%/msh
-.RS 5
-Currently not used.
-.RE
-.PP
 .BR packproc :
 %bindir%/packf
 .RS 5
@@ -677,6 +671,18 @@ This is the program used by
 .B whatnow
 to determine to whom a message would be sent.
 .RE
+.SS "Profile Lookup"
+After consulting .mh_profile,
+some programs read an optional profile specified by a
+program-specific environment variable,
+and then the system-wide profile %etcdir%/mhn.defaults.
+These programs are mhbuild, mhshow, mhstore, and mhn.
+mhfixmsg is similar, but has no optional profile.
+
+The first occurrence of a component is used,
+e.g.\& .mh_profile's trumps $MHSHOW's.
+A component with no value still stops further occurrences being used,
+but is considered absent.
 .SS "Environment Variables"
 The operation of
 .B nmh
@@ -749,7 +755,7 @@ additional user profile (file) to be read by
 .BR mhn ,
 in addition to the mhn.defaults profile.
 .B mhn
-is deprecated, so this support for this variable will
+is deprecated, so support for this variable will
 be removed from a future nmh release.
 .RE
 .PP
@@ -872,6 +878,13 @@ will emit debugging information.
 If this variable is set to a non-null value,
 .B pick
 will emit a representation of the search pattern.
+.B $MHPDEBUG
+is deprecated, so support for this variable will
+be removed from a future nmh release.  Instead,
+.B pick
+now supports a
+.B \-debug
+switch.
 .RE
 .PP
 .B $MHWDEBUG