diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 6b732e9..8fc2c2f 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ corrections:
 	Christophe Leroy provided a patch that fixes memory leaks reported by
 	valgrind
 
+	Help for filan -L was bad, is now corrected to:
+	"follow symbolic links instead of showing their properties"
+
 porting:
 	Socat included <sys/poll.h> instead of POSIX <poll.h>
 	Thanks to John Spencer for reporting this issue.
diff --git a/filan_main.c b/filan_main.c
index 866b271..6bfb297 100644
--- a/filan_main.c
+++ b/filan_main.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* source: filan_main.c */
-/* Copyright Gerhard Rieger 2001-2008 */
+/* Copyright Gerhard Rieger */
 /* Published under the GNU General Public License V.2, see file COPYING */
 
 const char copyright[] = "filan by Gerhard Rieger - see http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/";
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ static void filan_usage(FILE *fd) {
    fputs("      -f<filename>   analyze file system entry\n", fd);
    fputs("      -T<seconds>    wait before analyzing, useful to connect with debugger\n", fd);
    fputs("      -r             raw output for time stamps and rdev\n", fd);
-   fputs("      -L             show symlink properties instead of following it\n", fd);
+   fputs("      -L             follow symbolic links instead of showing their properties\n", fd);
    fputs("      -o<filename>   output goes to filename, that can be:\n", fd);
    fputs("                     a regular file name, the output goes to that\n", fd);
    fputs("                     +<filedes> , output goes to the file descriptor (which must be open writable)\n", fd);