diff --git a/README b/README
index 4f28eb120..89cf35a9d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -110,11 +110,11 @@ Please read items (1), (2) and (3) BEFORE doing anything with your new code.
         IBM PS/2 and AT compatibles running OS/2 - 2.0 and up with GCC emx
         Intel 80386 or greater (or clone) boxes running MS-DOS with DPMI.
         Intel 80386 or greater (or clone) boxes running Linux, BSDI, or
-		Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
-	Intel Pentium or better (or clone) running BeOS 4.5
+                Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
+        Intel Pentium or better (or clone) running BeOS 4.5
         Sun SPARC based machine running SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x, or Solaris 7
-	Pocket PC devices running Windows CE 3.0 and higher.
-	H/PC Pro devices running Windows CE 2.11 and higher.
+        Pocket PC devices running Windows CE 3.0 and higher.
+        H/PC Pro devices running Windows CE 2.11 and higher.
 
     Previous versions of NetHack were tested on the following systems,
     and we expect that NetHack 3.4 will work on them as well: