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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ I am not interested in making 'ultra portable code'. I will accept patches
 to make the code that already exists conform more to SUS or POSIX, but
 I don't really care if your not-SUS OS doesn't work. It is simply too
 much work to maintain patches for dysfunctional OSs. I highly suggest you
-contact your vendor and express intrest in a conforming C library.
+contact your vendor and express interest in a conforming C library.
 
 That said, there are lots of finicky problems that must be dealt with even
 between the supported OS's. Primarily the path I choose to take is to put
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ functionality. Patches to make autoconf detect these cases and generate the
 required shims are OK.
 
 Current shims:
-  * C99 integer types 'inttypes.h' 
   * sys/statvfs.h to convert from BSD/old-glibc statfs to SUS statvfs
   * rfc2553 hostname resolution (methods/rfc*), shims to normal gethostbyname.
     The more adventurous could steal the KAME IPv6 enabled resolvers for those
@@ -54,7 +53,7 @@ Debian GNU Linux 'potato'
 Debian GNU Linux 'woody'
   * All Archs
   - Works flawlessly
-  - You will want to have debiandoc-sgml and docbook2man installed to get
+  - You will want to have docbook-xml and docbook2man installed to get
     best results.
   - No IPv6 Support in glibc's < 2.1.