diff --git a/collects/help/doc.txt b/collects/help/doc.txt
index ad40904c68..7a31d22385 100644
--- a/collects/help/doc.txt
+++ b/collects/help/doc.txt
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ documentation.
 > (finddoc manual index-key label)
   This procedure accepts three strings. The first is the name of 
   a doc collection, the second is an index entry in that manual, and 
-  the final is a descriptive string. It returns a string representation 
+  the final is a descriptive string. It returns a xexpr representation 
   of an anchor (in HTML) that points to that index entry in the manual.
   If the manual is not found, or the index-key is not in the manual,
   it returns html code that shows an error. Because the link is
diff --git a/collects/help/private/finddoc.ss b/collects/help/private/finddoc.ss
index b45415b59e..10cf41af40 100644
--- a/collects/help/private/finddoc.ss
+++ b/collects/help/private/finddoc.ss
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     (match (lookup manual index-key label) 
       [(docdir index-key filename anchor title)
        `(a ((href ,(string-append 
-                    "file:" (build-path docdir filename))))
+                    "file:" (path->string (build-path docdir filename)))))
            ,label)]
       [m m]))