diff --git a/man/man1/mred.1 b/man/man1/mred.1
index 68c8d2de..ea6b3b82 100644
--- a/man/man1/mred.1
+++ b/man/man1/mred.1
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ In addition, the option
 is treated like an X option (it must appear before all other
 options), and it runs MrEd in single-instance mode.
 In single-instance mode, when an existing instance
-is running with the same executable name, all non-option
+is running with the same host and executable name, all non-option
 arguments are treated as file names and sent to the 
 existing instance.
 .PP