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diff --git a/man/pick.man1 b/man/pick.man1
index ea63a75..2de3ce5 100644
--- a/man/pick.man1
+++ b/man/pick.man1
@@ -94,11 +94,11 @@ With the others,
 .B pick
 compares the header field name case insensitive
 and the tries to match the field body with the
-.IR patern.
+.IR pattern.
 .PP
 With
 .BR --componend
-you can sepcify the exact header field name you are looking for.
+you can specify the exact header field name you are looking for.
 It is used to pick a component which is not one of `To:',
 `Cc:', `Date:', `From:', or `Subject:'.
 An example is
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ An example is
 Pattern matching is performed on a per\-header-field basis. Within the header
 of the message, each field is treated as one long line, but in the
 body, each line is separate.  The
-.IR patern
+.IR pattern
 will match any case.
 .PP
 Note that since the
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ switches are provided, which act just like opening and closing
 parentheses in logical expressions.
 .PP
 If no search criteria are given, all the messages specified on the
-command line are selected (this defaults to `all').
+command line are selected (this defaults to `a').
 .PP
 Once the search has been performed, if the
 .B \-list
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ The default
 .B Scan
 line contains the message number
 (name), the date, the `From:' field and the `Subject' field.
-The folowing example shows the default output of
+The following example shows the default output of
 .B scan
 .PP
 .RS 5
@@ -446,11 +446,11 @@ mark(1)
 .SH DEFAULTS
 .nf
 .RB ` +folder "' defaults to the current folder"
-.RB ` msgs "' defaults to all"
+.RB ` msgs "' defaults to all messages"
 .RB ` "\-datefield date" '
 .RB ` \-zero '
 .RB ` \-list "' is the default if no `\-sequence', `\-nolist' otherwise"
-.RB ` "\-format pick\.default" "' if the programm is called with scan `scan.default' is used
+.RB ` "\-format pick\.default" "' if the program is called with scan `scan.default' is used
 .fi
 
 .SH CONTEXT
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ In
 .B nmh
 and old
 .B mmh
-versions scan and pick where two diffrent tools. So instand of typing
+versions scan and pick where two different tools. So instand of typing
 .PP
 .RS 5
 .nf
@@ -573,5 +573,16 @@ was given, and if its standard output is not a tty, then
 outputs the illegal message number `0'
 when it fails.  This lets the outer command fail gracefully as well.
 .PP
+To account for this case when combining
+.B pick
+with regular shell tools, filter out the message number `0'.
+For example, do
+.PP
+.RS 5
+pick\0...\0|\0fgrep\0-vx\0\&0\0|\0wc\0-l
+.RE
+.PP
+to count the number of messages picked.
+.PP
 The pattern syntax `[l-r]' is not supported; each letter to be
 matched must be included within the square brackets.