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@@ -6,23 +6,20 @@ Welcome to Perltidy!
     -- please see the included file "COPYING" for details.
 
 PREREQUISITES
-    Perltidy is programmed to work with versions of Perl as old as 5.004.
-    (You can find your version with "perl -v"). However, some systems this
-    old may have problems, particularly Windows versions.
-
-    This this release was successfully tested on a 5.004_04 linux
-    distribution (1997) and a 5.005_03 Windows version (ActiveState build
-    522, 1999).
+    An effort has been made to keep "perltidy" compatable with versions of
+    Perl as old as 5.004, and this release was tested on Perl version
+    5.004_04 under linux. (You can find your version with "perl -v").
+    However, some systems this old may have problems, particularly Windows
+    versions.
 
     The following modules are not required, but perltidy may use them if
     detected:
 
-      Win32    will be used to help identify a Windows system if detected
       HTML::Entities  will be used to encode HTML entities if detected
       Pod::Html will be used to format pod text
 
     The total disk space needed after removing the installation directory
-    will about 1 Mb.
+    will about 2 Mb.
 
 DOWNLOAD
     There are two source distribution files:
@@ -42,7 +39,8 @@ INSTALLATION
      make test
      make install
 
-    The INSTALL file has additional installation notes.
+    The INSTALL file has additional installation notes, and tells how to use
+    perltidy without doing an installation.
 
 WHAT NEXT
     Please see the CHANGES file for notices of any recent updates.