diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index fee907bc14f4b16e35485ac8bf7cd5c5f41aa186..b8ddf0c2965b0110098e884b5989d088d5fc061b 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in:
  ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt    (with leading zeros)
  ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt
 
-It is possible to specify up to 9 sets or series for a URL, but no nesting is
-supported at the moment:
+No nesting of the sequences is supported at the moment:
 
  http://www.any.org/archive[1996-1999]/volume[1-4]part{a,b,c,index}.html