--- a/doc/index.txt	Tue Jan 14 03:45:20 2003 +0200
+++ b/doc/index.txt	Tue Jan 14 03:49:16 2003 +0200
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 IMAP Index Files
 ----------------
 
-Designed to be NFS-safe and accessible from multiple computers, even with
-different architecture. Should support pretty much any mail format, at
-least maildir and mbox can be implemented with it.
+Should support pretty much any mail format, at least maildir and mbox can
+be implemented with it.
 
-The data in the files are stored using native byte order and type sizes.
-They're saved into index file's "compatibility" fields. No attempt is made
-to deal with incompatible index files, they're either overwritten or
-new files are created.
+The data in the files are stored using native byte order and variable type
+sizes. That information is saved into index file's "compatibility" fields.
+No attempt is made to deal with incompatible index files, they're either
+overwritten or new files are created.
 
 Index file names begin with ".imap.index" or ".imap.index-<hostname>". The
 first form is used by default, the second when first is found to be