--- samba-3.3.4/docs-xml/manpages-3/smbstatus.1.xml.ori	2009-05-26 12:05:09.000000000 +0200
+++ samba-3.3.4/docs-xml/manpages-3/smbstatus.1.xml	2009-05-26 12:28:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -103,6 +103,25 @@
 		</listitem>
 		</varlistentry>
 
+		<varlistentry>
+		<term>-m|--machine-readable</term>
+		<listitem>
+			<para>Changes output format to alternative format</para>
+			<para>Samba Version will not be given.
+				Empty blocks of information are not printed.
+				The ruler between heading of each block and data is not printed.
+				Each block will start with an empty line, followed by the block name, followed by the heading for this block.
+				The block name ends with a double colon.
+				Each column of information (and of heading) is separated from each other by tabulator (asc 9) character.
+				If (and only if) the information in one column contains a special character, than the information will be surrounded by double quotes 
+					and every special character will be preceded by one backslash character.
+				Special characters are: double quote, tabulator, newline, backslash.
+				If an information column is empty, than no quoting takes place. In this case two (or more, if more columns are empty) consecutive tabs will be printed.
+				The count of heading columns and information columns in each block is equal.</para>
+			<para>do not use --verbose with this option.</para>
+		</listitem>
+		</varlistentry>
+
 	</variablelist>
 </refsect1>