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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 5e82cf9c..0e0f912c 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
* gawk.texi: For Info output, don't use @center on text images
since the new makeinfo doesn't yet center the file as a block.
Thanks to Karl Berry for the diagnostic.
+ * gawk.1: Remove commented out doc for -m option which was for
+ compatibility with BWK awk. His awk dropped it back in 2007.
2013-01-31 Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
diff --git a/doc/gawk.1 b/doc/gawk.1
index 8bc14bf6..90288db5 100644
--- a/doc/gawk.1
+++ b/doc/gawk.1
@@ -159,33 +159,6 @@ before execution of the program begins.
Such variable values are available to the
.B BEGIN
block of an \*(AK program.
-.ig
-.TP
-.PD 0
-.BI \-mf " NNN"
-.TP
-.PD
-.BI \-mr " NNN"
-Set various memory limits to the value
-.IR NNN .
-The
-.B f
-flag sets the maximum number of fields, and the
-.B r
-flag sets the maximum record size. These two flags and the
-.B \-m
-option are from an earlier version of the Bell Laboratories
-research version of \*(UX
-.IR awk .
-They are ignored by
-.IR gawk ,
-since
-.I gawk
-has no pre-defined limits.
-(Current versions of the Bell Laboratories
-.I awk
-no longer accept them.)
-..
.TP
.PD 0
.B \-b