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diff --git a/README.mint b/README.mint
index 91a6b30..a2372c0 100644
--- a/README.mint
+++ b/README.mint
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
+There is a binary version of perl available from the FreeMiNT project
+http://freemint.de/  You may wish to use this instead of trying to
+compile yourself.
+
+B<The following advice is from perl 5.004_02 and is probably rather
+out of date.>
+
 If you want to build perl yourself on MiNT (or maybe on an Atari without
 MiNT) you may want to accept some advice from somebody who already did it...
 
@@ -71,7 +78,7 @@ for cc1's stack.  A setting of 1 would reserve the entire
 memory for cc1, 3 would reserve three fourths.  You will have
 to find out the value that suits to your system yourself.
 
-To find out the location of the program `cc1' simply type
+To find out the location of the program "cc1" simply type
 `gcc --print-prog-name cc1' at your shell prompt.
 
 Now run make (maybe "make -k").  If you get a fatal signal 10 
@@ -116,16 +123,16 @@ This will fix the problem.
 
 This version (5.00402) of perl has passed most of the tests on my system:
 
-Failed Test  Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-io/pipe.t                    10    2  20.00%  7, 9
-io/tell.t                    13    1   7.69%  12
-lib/complex.t               762   13   1.71%  84-85, 248-251, 257, 272-273,
-                                              371, 380, 419-420
-lib/io_pipe.t                10    1  10.00%  9
-lib/io_tell.t                13    1   7.69%  12
-op/magic.t                   30    2   6.67%  29-30
-Failed 6/152 test scripts, 96.05% okay. 20/4359 subtests failed, 99.54% okay.
+ Failed Test  Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of failed
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ io/pipe.t                    10    2  20.00%  7, 9
+ io/tell.t                    13    1   7.69%  12
+ lib/complex.t               762   13   1.71%  84-85, 248-251, 257, 272-273,
+                                               371, 380, 419-420
+ lib/io_pipe.t                10    1  10.00%  9
+ lib/io_tell.t                13    1   7.69%  12
+ op/magic.t                   30    2   6.67%  29-30
+ Failed 6/152 test scripts, 96.05% okay. 20/4359 subtests failed, 99.54% okay.
 
 Pipes always cause problems with MiNT, it's actually a surprise that
 most of the tests did work.  I've got no idea why the "tell" test failed,
@@ -141,7 +148,7 @@ with op/magic.t and op/stat.t.  Maybe you'll find it out.
 
 ##########################################################################
 
-Another possible problem may arise from the implementation of  the "pwd" 
+Another possible problem may arise from the implementation of the "pwd" 
 command.  It happened to add a carriage return and newline to its output 
 no matter what the setting of $UNIXMODE is.  This is quite annoying since many
 library modules for perl take the output of pwd, chop off the
@@ -195,7 +202,7 @@ or extract the original system.o from your libc with
 module somewhere before you succeed.
 
 Anything missing?  Yep, I've almost forgotten...  
-No file in this  distribution without a fine saying.  Take this one:
+No file in this distribution without a fine saying.  Take this one:
 
 	"From a thief you should learn: (1) to work at night;
 	(2) if one cannot gain what one wants in one night to
@@ -219,6 +226,4 @@ Have fun with Perl!
 
 Guido Flohr
 
-	mailto:gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de
-	http://stud.uni-sb.de/~gufl0000
-
+	mailto:guido@FreeMiNT.de