diff --git a/orte/tools/orterun/orterun.1in b/orte/tools/orterun/orterun.1in
index 1ea603d57f..8b19dde91b 100644
--- a/orte/tools/orterun/orterun.1in
+++ b/orte/tools/orterun/orterun.1in
@@ -310,23 +310,17 @@ Suppress informative messages from mpirun during application execution.
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 .TP
-.B -report-uri\fR,\fP --report-uri
-Print out mpirun's URI during startup.
+.B -report-uri\fR,\fP --report-uri <channel>
+Print out mpirun's URI during startup. The channel must be either a '-' to indicate that
+the URI is to be output to stdout, a '+' to indicate that the URI is to be output to stderr,
+or a filename to which the URI is to be written.
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 .
 .TP
-.B -report-uri-file\fR,\fP --report-uri-file <filename>
-Print out mpirun's URI to the specified file during startup.
-.
-.
-.TP
-.B -report-pid\fR,\fP --report-pid
-Print out mpirun's PID during startup.
-.
-.
-.TP
-.B -report-pid-file\fR,\fP --report-pid-file <filename>
-Print out mpirun's PID to the specified file during startup.
+.B -report-pid\fR,\fP --report-pid <channel>
+Print out mpirun's PID during startup. The channel must be either a '-' to indicate that
+the pid is to be output to stdout, a '+' to indicate that the pid is to be output to stderr,
+or a filename to which the pid is to be written.
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 .TP