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-JRuby Native Launcher
+# JRuby Native Launcher
 
-== Motivation
+## Motivation
 
-Maintaning JRuby.BAT was, well, to put it mildly, unpleasant. We had
+Maintaning `JRuby.BAT` was, well, to put it mildly, unpleasant. We had
 tens of bugs due to BAT limitations, we had weird behaviors depending
 on the version of Windows, we had a bunch of regressions.
 
 See http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-4100 for more details.
 
 On UNIX platforms, we had problems because a shell-script can't be put
-as a path in the shebang and couldn't take arguments. (#!/usr/bin/env
-jruby -w)
+as a path in the shebang and couldn't take arguments. (`#!/usr/bin/env
+jruby -w`)
 
 We also wanted to DRY up argument handling, even if it meant ditching
 shell script and writing in lowest-common-denominator C++ (!).
 
-== Compile
+## Compile
 
-On UNIX, you should be able to just type 'make' and a 'jruby' binary
+On UNIX, you should be able to just type `make` and a `jruby` binary
 will be created in the project directory. Copy this to
-$JRUBY_HOME/bin. On Windows, you should also be able to type 'make' if
+`$JRUBY_HOME/bin` (or wherever your `jruby` executable is installed). On
+Windows, you should also be able to type `make` if
 you have the MinGW compiler toolkit installed.
 
 Or, open the project in Netbeans 6.8 (with C/C++ plugin installed). If
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 http://netbeans.org/community/releases/68/cpp-setup-instructions.html
 
-Then, just build it, and you're ready to go. jruby.exe, jrubyw.exe and
-jruby.dll will be created, they need to be copied into $JRUBY_HOME/bin
+Then, just build it, and you're ready to go. `jruby.exe`, `jrubyw.exe`
+and
+`jruby.dll` will be created, they need to be copied into
+`$JRUBY_HOME/bin`
 directory.
 
 Both, 32-bit and 64-bit compilers are supported. Great version of
@@ -39,23 +42,23 @@ Both, 32-bit and 64-bit compilers are supported. Great version of
 To build 64-bit version of the launcher, use the following from the
 command line:
 
-  make CONF=mingw64
+    make CONF=mingw64
 
-== Run
+## Run
 
 The launcher provides a great logger, use it like this:
 
-  jruby -Xtrace LOG_FILE.log ....
+    jruby -Xtrace LOG_FILE.log ....
 
-== TODO
+## TODO
 
-See TODO.txt file for things that need to be done before this launcher
-could replace jruby.bat.
+See `TODO.txt` file for things that need to be done before this launcher
+could replace `jruby.bat`.
 
-== Thanks
+##  Thanks
 
 The original code is by Netbeans project.
 
-== License
+## License
 
-Read the COPYING file.
+Read the `COPYING` file.