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DISTRESS-Issue#1
diff --git a/cli/README.md b/cli/../README.md
index 458256e..ea8bc27 100644
--- a/cli/README.md
+++ b/cli/../README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-e.œ².U³"XÉ;³¢òœRibutEd Secure file System #
+# DISTRESS: DISTRibutEd Secure file System #
For our graduate project in Secure Data Management at the Rochester Institute
of Technology, we proposed a possible design for a secure collaborative
@@ -25,28 +25,7 @@ DISTRESS server without having to build a release, type the following:
* `./distressd`
-This is helpful for debugging thIÍ8ÐQúœþ茜’ll contain everything you need to run
-DISTRESS, including a stripped down version of the Erlang VM. You can now
-zip/tar it up to distribute, however just linking to the binary should be enough
-to run on the current platform:
-
-```
-make release
-ln -s $(pwd)/rel/distress/bin/distress ~/bin/distress
-```
-
-Running the release is similar to a standard init.d service (with some added
-features:
-
-```
-~/bin/distress
-Usage: distress {start|stop|restart|reboot|ping|console|attach}
-```
-
-Once started you can `attach` to the running service and treat it like an
-Erlang shell to send commands to it.
-
-¬r1UŸó V™Ž7Ým before building the release
+This is helpful for debugging the distress system before building the release
for installation.
NOTE: if you are running an older version of Erlang, then there may be errors,
@@ -78,4 +57,24 @@ Note that we used the file ID of the file, which can be found:
## Installing ##
Note that this is not a necessary step if you just wish to mess around with
the DISTRESS system. But deploying DISTRESS is simple. Running `make release`
-will generate a `rel` di
\ No newline at end of file
+will generate a `rel` directory which will contain everything you need to run
+DISTRESS, including a stripped down version of the Erlang VM. You can now
+zip/tar it up to distribute, however just linking to the binary should be enough
+to run on the current platform:
+
+```
+make release
+ln -s $(pwd)/rel/distress/bin/distress ~/bin/distress
+```
+
+Running the release is similar to a standard init.d service (with some added
+features:
+
+```
+~/bin/distress
+Usage: distress {start|stop|restart|reboot|ping|console|attach}
+```
+
+Once started you can `attach` to the running service and treat it like an
+Erlang shell to send commands to it.
+
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