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diff --git a/disk/aboot/DETAILS b/disk/aboot/DETAILS
index e3367935db..0d0bae825c 100755
--- a/disk/aboot/DETAILS
+++ b/disk/aboot/DETAILS
@@ -12,13 +12,17 @@ SOURCE_DIRECTORY=${BUILD_DIRECTORY}/${SPELL}-${VERSION}
BUILD_API=2
SHORT="The boot loader for Alpha SRM"
cat << EOF
-This is one of the two boot loaders you might consider for you Alpha box and _the_ one for booting from the SRM.
+This is one of the two boot loaders you might consider for you Alpha box
+and _the_ one for booting from the SRM.
It is a good idea to read the instructions at the website (or stuff in
/usr/share/doc/aboot) carefully, though here is a quick reminder:
- - aboot needs an ext2/3 (or iso9660 on boot CD) filesystem and BSD
+ - aboot needs an ext2/3 (or iso9660 on boot CD) filesystem and BSD
disklabels as partition scheme
- - It writes itself to the beginning of the disk - so keep 12MB free to
+ - It writes itself to the beginning of the disk - so keep 12MB free to
be on the safe side - other wise it might destroy your data!
- <quick install instructions>
-Note on the version: this is 0.9b with a patch from CLFS book that prevents use of system kernel headers and makes it compile iwth gcc 4.1; there exists a slighly newer base version 1.0_pre20040408 that may have some fixes probably only relevant to Wildfire machines.
+Note on the version: this is 0.9b with a patch from CLFS book that prevents
+use of system kernel headers and makes it compile iwth gcc 4.1; there exists
+a slighly newer base version 1.0_pre20040408 that may have some fixes probably
+only relevant to Wildfire machines.
EOF