diff --git a/docs/FEATURES b/docs/FEATURES
index 5fcf9dfea..2bdbba6d6 100644
--- a/docs/FEATURES
+++ b/docs/FEATURES
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ FTP
  - download
  - authentication
  - kerberos security
- - PORT or PASV
+ - active/passive using PORT, EPRT, PASV or EPSV
  - single file size information (compare to HTTP HEAD)
  - 'type=' URL support
  - dir listing
diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL
index c43079776..9d402ed40 100644
--- a/docs/INSTALL
+++ b/docs/INSTALL
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ UNIX
    The configure script always tries to find a working SSL library unless
    explicitly told not to. If you have OpenSSL installed in the default search
    path for your compiler/linker, you don't need to do anything special. If
-   you have OpenSSL installed in e.g /usr/local/ssl, you can run configure
-   like:
+   you have OpenSSL installed in /usr/local/ssl, you can run configure like:
 
 	./configure --with-ssl
 
@@ -46,13 +45,13 @@ UNIX
 
 	./configure --with-ssl=/opt/OpenSSL
 
-   If you insist on forcing a build *without* SSL support, even though you may
-   have it installed in your system, you can run configure like this:
+   If you insist on forcing a build without SSL support, even though you may
+   have OpenSSL installed in your system, you can run configure like this:
 
         ./configure --without-ssl
 
    If you have OpenSSL installed, but with the libraries in one place and the
-   header files somewhere else, you'll have to set the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS
+   header files somewhere else, you have to set the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS
    environment variables prior to running configure.  Something like this
    should work:
 
@@ -72,7 +71,7 @@ UNIX
      LIBS=-lRSAglue -lrsaref
      (as suggested by Doug Kaufman)
 
-   KNOWN PROBLEMS
+   KNOWN PROBLEMS (these ones should not happen anymore)
 
      If you happen to have autoconf installed, but a version older than 2.12
      you will get into trouble. Then you can still build curl by issuing these
@@ -101,8 +100,8 @@ UNIX
 
    MORE OPTIONS
 
-     Remember, to force configure to use the standard cc compiler if both
-     cc and gcc are present, run configure like
+     To force configure to use the standard cc compiler if both cc and gcc are
+     present, run configure like
 
        CC=cc ./configure
          or
@@ -130,11 +129,6 @@ UNIX
 
        ./configure --with-krb4=/usr/athena
 
-     If your system support shared libraries, but you want to built a static
-     version only, you can disable building the shared version by using:
-
-       ./configure --disable-shared
-
      If you're a curl developer and use gcc, you might want to enable more
      debug options with the --enable-debug option.
 
diff --git a/docs/README.win32 b/docs/README.win32
index 763bdff17..5b6db3087 100644
--- a/docs/README.win32
+++ b/docs/README.win32
@@ -12,18 +12,11 @@ README.win32
   systems. While not being the main develop target, a fair share of curl users
   are win32-based.
 
-  Some documentation in this archive will be tricky to read for Windows
-  people, as they come in unix-style man pages. You can either download a
-  freely available nroff binary for win32 (*pointers appriciated*), convert
-  the files into plain-text on your neighbor's unix machine or run over to the
-  curl web site and view them as plain HTML.
+  The unix-style man pages are tricky to read on windows, so therefore are all
+  those pages also converted to HTML and those are also included in the
+  release archives.
 
-  The main curl.1 man page is "built-in". Use a command line similar to this
-  in order to extract a separate text file:
+  The main curl.1 man page is also "built-in" in the command line tool. Use a
+  command line similar to this in order to extract a separate text file:
 
         curl -M >manual.txt
-
-  Download all the libcurl man pages in HTML format using the link on the
-  bottom of this page:
-
-        http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/