diff --git a/bin/figspecial2svg b/bin/figspecial2svg
index a24742cc4af668cacff67ebf3047d8a3fbf787f8..2fd17eed1618306e0bc17dc55f77d923239f4ced 100755
--- a/bin/figspecial2svg
+++ b/bin/figspecial2svg
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@ my $localPid = `echo -n $$`;
 
 my $argCount = $#ARGV;
 if (1 != $argCount) {
-   die "usage: figspecial2png figFile pngFile" ;
+   die "usage: figspecial2svg figFile svgFile" ;
 } else {
-    my ($figFileName, $pngResultFileName) = @ARGV;
+    my ($figFileName, $svgResultFileName) = @ARGV;
     my $figFileBasename = $figFileName;
     $figFileBasename =~ s/\.fig$//;
     system("fig2pdf --nogv $figFileName");
-    system("pdf2svg $figFileBasename.pdf $pngResultFileName && rm -f $figFileBasename.pdf");
+    system("pdf2svg $figFileBasename.pdf $svgResultFileName && rm -f $figFileBasename.pdf");
 }
 
 #my $tmpDir = '/tmp/gendir';
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ if (1 != $argCount) {
 #   }
 # }
 
-# &execCmd("cp " . $pngGenerateFile . ' ' . $pngResultFileName);
+# &execCmd("cp " . $pngGenerateFile . ' ' . $svgResultFileName);
 
  sub execCmd {
      my ($cmd) = @_;