diff --git a/htroot/CrawlStart_p.html b/htroot/CrawlStart_p.html
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--- a/htroot/CrawlStart_p.html
+++ b/htroot/CrawlStart_p.html
@@ -114,8 +114,9 @@
 			<input type="radio" name="range" value="subpath" />Restrict to sub-path
 		  </td>
           <td>
-            The filter is an emacs-like regular expression that must match with the URLs which are used to be crawled;
-            default is 'catch all'.
+            The filter is a <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html">regular expression</a>
+            that must match with the URLs which are used to be crawled; default is 'catch all'.
+            Example: to allow only urls that contain the word 'science', set the filter to '.*science.*'. 
             You can also use an automatic domain-restriction to fully crawl a single domain.
           </td>
         </tr>