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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 675fbe2f..a6c12c07 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Quick Installation
 ==================
 
-   To configure and compile SILC package give the comands:
+   To configure and compile SILC package give the commands:
 
 	./configure
 	make (or gmake)
@@ -11,44 +11,62 @@ Quick Installation
 /usr/local/silc/ directory.  System wide configuration files are installed
 into the /etc/silc/ directory.
 
-Some Configuration Options
-==========================
+You may need to add the /usr/local/silc path to your PATH environment
+variable after the installation.
+
+Configuration Options
+=====================
 
    You can give various options to the `configure' shell script.  You should
 give --help command to the `configure' to see all of them.  Here is listed
 few options that you might want to use.  Please refer to the rest of this
 file for more generic installation instructions.
 
---with-gmp=PATH
+`--with-gmp[=DIR]'
 
    If you wish to use GMP library for arbitrary precision arithmetic
 library instead of using the MPI library included in the package, you can
-give the --with-gmp=PATH option to the `configure'.  The PATH is the path
-to the GMP library in your system.
+give the --with-gmp[=DIR] option to the `configure'.  The DIR is the upper
+path in your system which contains lib/ and include/ for GMP library.
+   Note that MPI is the prefered arbitrary precision arithmetic library and
+GMP can be used as a fall-back if you have problems with the MPI library
+included within this package.
+
+`--with-iconv[=DIR]'
+
+   If your system doesn't provide iconv() function in its native libraries
+(usually libc) or if this function is broken (e.g. older Solaris systems),
+you may want to use libiconv instead.  The DIR is the upper path in your
+system which contains lib/ and include/ for libiconv (e.g. /usr/local).
+
+`--without-pthreads'
 
---disable-asm
+   If you do not want to compile the programs with POSIX multi-threads
+support you can give --without-pthreads option.  In this case all compiled
+programs will work in single thread only.
+
+`--disable-asm'
 
    If you have trouble compiling the assembler optimized code in the
 package or does not want to use them, you can give the --disable-asm
 option to the `configure' script.  This will assure that assembler
 optimized code is not compiled in.
 
---enable-debug
+`--enabled-shared'
 
-   If you would like to enable the debugging for the compiled programs
-you can give this option to the `configure'.
+   If you wish to compile and install shared libraries then enable this
+option.  By default all libraries are compiled as static libraries.
 
---disable-threads
+`--enable-debug'
 
-   If you do not want to compile the programs with multi threads support
-you can give --disable-threads option.  In this case all compiled programs
-will work in single thread only.
+   If you would like to enable the debugging for the compiled programs
+you can give this option to the `configure'.
 
---enable-ipv6
+`--enable-ipv6'
 
    The `configure' will attempt to check for IPv6 support in your system.
-   However, if it fails, but you still want to compile in the IPv6 support
-   you can give --enable-ipv6 option to force the IPv6 support.
+However, if it fails, but you still want to compile in the IPv6 support
+you can give --enable-ipv6 option to force the IPv6 support.
 
 Basic Installation
 ==================