diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2d3ec0907d..0d29dd3a08 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sat Jun 12 23:45:01 CEST 1999 Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
+
+	* docs/parasites.txt: nicks comments...
+
 Thu Jun 10 12:11:24 PDT 1999 Manish Singh <yosh@gimp.org>
 
 	* almost all the plug-in Makefiles: add $(INTLLIBS)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index eb95d62d68..376fba480a 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -54,9 +54,16 @@ recognizes. These are:
      the gimp uses to search for its configuration files from ~/.gimp (the
      directory .gimp in the users home directory) to DIR.
   
-  5. --enable-perl and --disable-perl. The perl extension does not build on
-     all systems. If you experience problems use --disable-perl and gimp
-     will not even try to built it.
+  5. --enable-perl and --disable-perl. The perl extension does not build
+     on all systems. If you experience problems use --disable-perl
+     and gimp will not even try to built it. The perl extension does
+     not usually respect the normal configure prefix but uses perl's
+     instead. You can force it to use a different prefix by giving it as
+     an argument to the --enable-perl option (--enable-perl=/my/prefix),
+     however, you will usually have to set PERL5LIB or equivalent
+     environment variables, otherwise gimp-perl will not run or you will
+     get many errors on startup. See README.perl for even finer grained
+     control about installation paths (and distribution making).
 
 The `make' command builds several things:
  - The libraries `libgimp/libgimp.la', `libgimp/libgimpi.la' and
diff --git a/docs/parasites.txt b/docs/parasites.txt
index 5a30d06ffe..2f018e580c 100644
--- a/docs/parasites.txt
+++ b/docs/parasites.txt
@@ -33,10 +33,9 @@ Global data follows no strict rules.
 *** KNOWN PARASITES:
 
 "gimp-comment" (IMAGE, PERSISTENT)
-        Standard GIF-style comments.  This parasite is human-readable text
-        in unspecified 8-bit ASCII.  It includes a trailing \0 string
-        terminator.  The size of the parasite data may not exceed 241
-        bytes.
+        Standard GIF-style image comments.  This parasite should be
+        human-readable text, preferably in utf8 encoding.  A trailing \0
+        might be included and is not part of the comment.
 
 "tiff-save-options" (IMAGE)
         The TiffSaveVals structure from the TIFF plugin.