diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 97a90468..c93f5df2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ found in the git revision history:
 
   New features:
   - Implement Valgrind support, redzones, and quarantine.
-  - Add support for additional operating systems:
+  - Add support for additional platforms:
     + FreeBSD
     + Mac OS X Lion
     + MinGW
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ found in the git revision history:
   Bug fixes:
   - Fix a statistics-related bug in the "thread.arena" mallctl that could cause
     invalid statistics and crashes.
-  - Work around TLS dallocation via free() on Linux.  This bug could cause
+  - Work around TLS deallocation via free() on Linux.  This bug could cause
     write-after-free memory corruption.
   - Fix a potential deadlock that could occur during interval- and
     growth-triggered heap profile dumps.
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 04671a1d..7e3051ac 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -267,10 +267,6 @@ directory, issue configuration and build commands:
 
 The manual page is generated in both html and roff formats.  Any web browser
 can be used to view the html manual.  The roff manual page can be formatted
-prior to installation via any of the following commands:
+prior to installation via the following command:
 
     nroff -man -t doc/jemalloc.3
-
-    groff -man -t -Tps doc/jemalloc.3 | ps2pdf - doc/jemalloc.3.pdf
-
-    (cd doc; groff -man -man-ext -t -Thtml jemalloc.3 > jemalloc.3.html)
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index b9917da4..e39b8ea0 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -227,8 +227,8 @@ check: tests
 		for t in $(CTESTS:$(srcroot)%.c=$(objroot)%); do \
 			total=`expr $$total + 1`; \
 			/bin/echo -n "$${t} ... "; \
-			$(TEST_LIBRARY_PATH) $${t}$(EXE) $(abs_srcroot) $(abs_objroot) \
-			  > $(objroot)$${t}.out 2>&1; \
+			$(TEST_LIBRARY_PATH) $${t}$(EXE) $(abs_srcroot) \
+			  $(abs_objroot) > $(objroot)$${t}.out 2>&1; \
 			if test -e "$(srcroot)$${t}.exp"; then \
 				diff -w -u $(srcroot)$${t}.exp \
 				  $(objroot)$${t}.out >/dev/null 2>&1; \
diff --git a/README b/README
index 411d52d4..7661683b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 jemalloc is a general-purpose scalable concurrent malloc(3) implementation.
-This distribution is a "portable" implementation that currently
-targets FreeBSD, Linux, Apple OS X, and MinGW.  jemalloc is included as the
-default allocator in the FreeBSD and NetBSD operating systems, and it is used
-by the Mozilla Firefox web browser on Microsoft Windows-related platforms.
-Depending on your needs, one of the other divergent versions may suit your
-needs better than this distribution.
+This distribution is a "portable" implementation that currently targets
+FreeBSD, Linux, Apple OS X, and MinGW.  jemalloc is included as the default
+allocator in the FreeBSD and NetBSD operating systems, and it is used by the
+Mozilla Firefox web browser on Microsoft Windows-related platforms.  Depending
+on your needs, one of the other divergent versions may suit your needs better
+than this distribution.
 
 The COPYING file contains copyright and licensing information.