diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml
index 2bbf3e9590..f05ac766f3 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.sgml
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ EndSection</programlisting>
       <filename role="package">x11-fonts/ttmkfdir</filename>.</para>
 
     <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType</userinput>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>ttmkfdir &gt; fonts.dir</userinput></screen>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Now add the &truetype; directory to the font
       path.  This is just the same as described above for <link