diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 5e522b9a..91178b2c 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1442,6 +1442,7 @@ Udo Richter <udo_richter@gmx.de>
  for setting a timer's cached start time to 0 after a call to Skip()
  for adding "-fPIC" to the compiler options in Make.config.template when compiling
  plugins
+ for reporting a missing '--vfat' in the vdr.1 man page
 
 Sven Kreiensen <svenk@kammer.uni-hannover.de>
  for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.terr' up to date
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 860cb730..89ea341e 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4810,3 +4810,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   Note to all plugin developers: a plugin's Makefile *must* define the PLUGIN
   macro, even if it doesn't use it itself!
 - Added a comment regarding the PLUGIN macro to the 'newplugin' script.
+- Added '--vfat' to the vdr.1 man page (reported by Udo Richter).
diff --git a/vdr.1 b/vdr.1
index 1cd7a4d3..86f5bdf7 100644
--- a/vdr.1
+++ b/vdr.1
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 .\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the
 .\" vdr distribution.
 .\"
-.\" $Id: vdr.1 1.25 2006/04/29 13:30:00 kls Exp $
+.\" $Id: vdr.1 1.26 2006/06/24 10:07:16 kls Exp $
 .\"
 .TH vdr 1 "30 Apr 2006" "1.4.0" "Video Disk Recorder"
 .SH NAME
@@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ be set from the transponder data, but for security reasons
 vdr can switch to a lesser privileged user id during normal
 operation.
 .TP
+.BI \-\-vfat
+Encode special characters in recording names to avoid problems
+with VFAT file systems.
+.TP
 .BI \-v\  dir ,\ \-\-video= dir
 Use \fIdir\fR as video directory.
 The default is \fI/video\fR.