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+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-This is Sudo version 1.8.0
-
 The sudo philosophy
 ===================
 Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges
@@ -13,11 +11,10 @@ version.  The latest sudo may always be gotten via anonymous ftp from
 ftp.sudo.ws in the directory /pub/sudo/ or from the sudo web site,
 http://www.sudo.ws/
 
-The distribution is sudo-M.m.tar.gz where `M' is the major
-version number and `m' is the minor version number.
-BETA versions of sudo may also be available.  If you join
-the `sudo-workers' mailing list you will get the BETA announcements
-(see the `Mailing lists' section below).
+The distribution is sudo-M.m.tar.gz where `M' is the major version
+number and `m' is the minor version number.  BETA versions of sudo may
+also be available.  If you join the `sudo-workers' mailing list you
+will get the BETA announcements (see the `Mailing lists' section below).
 
 What's new
 ==========
@@ -30,22 +27,22 @@ If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Sudo, please see
 the UPGRADE file in the doc directory.
 
 For a history of sudo please see the HISTORY file in the doc directory.
+You can find a list of contributors to sudo in the doc/CONTRIBUTORS file.
 
 System requirements
 ===================
-To build sudo from the source distribution you need a nominally
-POSIX-compliant operating system (any modern version of BSD, Linux
-or UNIX should work), a working ANSI/ISO C compiler (C89 or higher),
-and the ar, make and ranlib utilities
+To build sudo from the source distribution you need a POSIX-compliant
+operating system (any modern version of BSD, Linux or Unix should
+work), an ANSI/ISO C compiler that supports variadic marcos (a C99
+feature) and the ar, make and ranlib utilities.
 
 If you wish to modify the parser then you will need flex version
 2.5.2 or later and either bison or byacc (sudo comes with a pre-flex'd
 tokenizer and pre-yacc'd grammar parser).  You'll also have to
 uncomment a few lines from the Makefile or run configure with the
---with-devel option.  You can get flex via anonymous ftp from
-ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex* as well as any GNU mirror.  You can
-get GNU bison from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/ or any GNU
-mirror.
+--with-devel option.  You can get flex from http://flex.sourceforge.net/.
+You can get GNU bison from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/ or any
+GNU mirror.
 
 Building the release
 ====================