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@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ Equihash proof-of-work solvers
 The executables ending in 1 are compiled without atomics and thus
 only suitable for single-threaded use (where they get some speedup over the generic version).
 
-Options -h <HEADER> -n <NONCE> are self explanatory.
-Add option -r <RANGESIZE> to search a range of nonces.
+Options -h HEADER -n NONCE are self explanatory.
+Add option -r RANGESIZE to search a range of nonces.