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diff --git a/makeself.sh b/makeself.sh
index f8f7da6..df55a8d 100755
--- a/makeself.sh
+++ b/makeself.sh
@@ -135,8 +135,9 @@ MS_Usage()
echo " --nochown : Do not give the target folder to the current user (default)"
echo " --chown : Give the target folder to the current user recursively"
echo " --nocomp : Do not compress the data"
- echo " --notemp : The archive will create archive_dir in the"
- echo " current directory and uncompress in ./archive_dir"
+ echo " --notemp : The archive will create archive_dir in the current directory"
+ echo " and uncompress in ./archive_dir"
+ echo " Note: persistent archives do not strictly require a startup_script"
echo " --needroot : Check that the root user is extracting the archive before proceeding"
echo " --copy : Upon extraction, the archive will first copy itself to"
echo " a temporary directory"
@@ -144,9 +145,9 @@ MS_Usage()
echo " The label and startup scripts will then be ignored"
echo " --target dir : Extract directly to a target directory"
echo " directory path can be either absolute or relative"
- echo " --nooverwrite : Do not extract the archive if the specified target directory exists"
echo " --current : Files will be extracted to the current directory"
- echo " Both --current and --target imply --notemp"
+ echo " Both --current and --target imply --notemp, and do not require a startup_script"
+ echo " --nooverwrite : Do not extract the archive if the specified target directory exists"
echo " --tar-format opt : Specify a tar archive format (default is ustar)"
echo " --tar-extra opt : Append more options to the tar command line"
echo " --untar-extra opt : Append more options to the during the extraction of the tar archive"