diff --git a/linkchecker.1 b/linkchecker.1
index 0201d643..c8e747e0 100644
--- a/linkchecker.1
+++ b/linkchecker.1
@@ -98,12 +98,14 @@ number of \fIbytes\fP.
 This option implies \fB-w\fP.
 .TP
 \fB-q\fP, \fB--quiet\fP
-Quiet operation. This is only useful with \fB-F\fP.
+Quiet operation, an alias for \fB-o none\fP.
+This is only useful with \fB-F\fP.
 .TP
 \fB-o\fP\fItype\fP, \fB--output=\fP\fItype\fP[\fB/\fP\fIencoding\fP]
 Specify output type as \fBtext\fP, \fBhtml\fP, \fBsql\fP,
 \fBcsv\fP, \fBgml\fP, \fBxml\fP, \fBnone\fP or \fBblacklist\fP.
-Default type is \fBtext\fP.
+Default type is \fBtext\fP. The various output types are documented
+below.
 \fIencoding\fP specifies the output encoding, the default is
 \fBiso-8859-15\fP.
 Valid encodings are listed at
@@ -122,7 +124,8 @@ else if the file already exists, it will be overwritten.
 You can specify this option more than once. Valid file output types
 are \fBtext\fP, \fBhtml\fP, \fBsql\fP,
 \fBcsv\fP, \fBgml\fP, \fBxml\fP, \fBnone\fP or \fBblacklist\fP
-Default is no file output. Note that you can suppress all console output
+Default is no file output. The various output types are documented
+below. Note that you can suppress all console output
 with the option \fB-o none\fP.
 .TP
 \fB--no-status\fP