diff --git a/doc/nethack.6 b/doc/nethack.6
index 554b8dd16..f19de5012 100644
--- a/doc/nethack.6
+++ b/doc/nethack.6
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ while
 .\" on the Macintosh or BeOS, it is \*(lqNetHack Defaults\*(rq, and
 on VMS|OpenVMS it is nethack.ini in your home directory.
 The default configuration file may be overridden via the
-.BI \-\-nethackrc: "rc-file"
+.BI \-\-nethackrc: rc-file
 command line option or by setting NETHACKOPTIONS in your environment
 to a string consisting of an @ character followed by the path and filename.
 .PP
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ The
 option will use
 .I rc-file
 instead of the default run-time configuration file
-.RI "(typically " \*~/.nethackrc ")"
+.RI "(typically " \*~/.nethackrc )
 and the
 .B \-\-no\-nethackrc
 option can be used to skip any run-time configuration file.