--- gforth/README	2003/08/27 12:13:49	1.56
+++ gforth/README	2004/01/13 16:00:55	1.59
@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ interpreter is direct threaded with seve
 also use a traditional-style indirect threaded interpreter.  Gforth is
 distributed under the GNU General Public license (see COPYING).
 
-Gforth runs under Unix, Win32, MacOS X, OS/2, and DOS and should not
-be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC. This version has
-been tested successfully on the following platforms:
+Gforth runs under GNU, BSD, and similar systems, MS Windows, MacOS X,
+OS/2, and DOS and should not be hard to port to other systems
+supported by GCC. This version has been tested successfully on the
+following platforms:
 
  alpha-dec-osf4.0d
  alpha-unknown-linux-gnu
@@ -28,8 +29,11 @@ been tested successfully on the followin
  sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
  sparc-unknown-linux-gnu
 
-Read INSTALL for installation instructions, or INSTALL.DOS for DOS,
-Windows, and OS/2, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have a binary package.
+Read INSTALL for installation instructions from source, or INSTALL.DOS
+for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 from source, or INSTALL.BINDIST if you have
+a binary package distributed as .tar.gz or .zip file.  If you received
+a self-installing executable, just run it and follow the instructions.
+
 To start the system, just say `gforth' (after installing it).
 
 You can find new versions of Gforth at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gforth/