Another coverage tweak.

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@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ Bug fixes:
 
 * Behavior when saying the giant's magic words outside his room wasn't
   quite correct - the game responded as though the player were in
-  the room.
+  the room ("...can't you read?"). The new message is "Well, that was
+  remarkably pointless."
  
 * Attempting to extinguish an unlit urn caused it to lose its oil.
 
@@ -57,6 +58,9 @@ Bug fixes:
   incorrect most places it appeared and has been replaced by "A crystal 
   bridge spans the fissure." (timeless present).
 
+* Under odd circumstances (dropping rug or vase outdoors) the game could
+  say "floor" when it should say "ground" (or "dirt", or something).
+
 By default, advent issues "> " as a command prompt.  This feature
 became common in many variants after the original 350-point version,
 but was never backported into Crowther & Woods's main line before now.
@@ -72,6 +76,9 @@ Unrecognized words are no longer truncated to 5 characters and
 uppercased when they are echoed. The "-o" (oldstyle) option restores
 this behavior.
 
+Typing a numeric literal to the command prompt no longer triggers a
+fatal error. This change is reverted by the oldstyle option. 
+
 A "seed" command has been added.  This is not intended for human use
 but as a way for game logs to set the PRNG (pseudorandom-number generator) so
 that random events (dwarf & pirate appearances, the bird's magic word)
@@ -100,8 +107,8 @@ necessarily pretty ugly by modern standards. Encryption and
 checksumming have been discarded - it's pointless to try
 tamper-proofing saves when everyone has the source code.
 
-A -r command-line been added. When it is given (with a file path
-argument) it is functionally equivalent to a RESTORE command.
+A -r command-line option has been added. When it is given (with a file
+path argument) it is functionally equivalent to a RESTORE command.
 
 == Translation ==
 
@@ -112,8 +119,7 @@ ugly and quite unreadable.
 Jason Ninneman and I have moved it to what is almost, but not quite,
 idiomatic modern C.  We refactored the right way, checking correctness
 against a comprehensive test suite that we built first and verified
-with coverage tools (we have over 95% coverage, with the remaining
-confined to exception cases that are very difficult to reach). This is
+with coverage tools (there is effectively 100% code coverage). This is
 what you are running when you do "make check".
 
 The move to modern C entailed some structural changes.  The most
@@ -171,6 +177,6 @@ We have made exactly one minor architectural change.  In addition to the
 old code's per-object state-description messages, we now have a per-object
 message series for state *changes*.  This makes it possible to pull a fair
 amount of text out of the arbitrary-messages list and associate those
-mesages with the objects that conceptually own them.
+messages with the objects that conceptually own them.
 
 // end