Fix nonexistent planet error. Make staying put cost nothing.

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@@ -283,7 +283,10 @@ RIGHT ON COMMAND-LINE
 
        An attribute name on its own is a request to print the current
        value of that attribute.  An assignment ATTR=VALUE makes ATTR
-       have the requested VALUE.
+       have the requested VALUE.  When requesting attributes, you can
+       instead give a pattern containing `*' and `?' metacharacters
+       (matching zero or more, or exactly one character) -- all
+       matching attributes are printed.
 
        The attributes, their meanings, and the acceptable values are as
        follows:
@@ -368,7 +371,7 @@ RIGHT ON COMMAND-LINE
        `-load' option.
 
 
-  elite-prices [-g GALAXY] [-s SORT] [FROM TO]
+  elite-prices [-g GALAXY] [-s SORT] [FROM [TO]]
 
        Shows minimum, average and maximum profit (in that order, in
        credits per unit) for the various commodities, starting at one
@@ -380,11 +383,17 @@ RIGHT ON COMMAND-LINE
 
        You can change the worlds under consideration by typing a pair
        of planet-specs or economy types (as printed by `elite-find').
-       Any planet-specs are obviously taken relative to GALAXY.
+       Any planet-specs are obviously taken relative to GALAXY.  You
+       can also say `avg' for the average over all economy types
+       (though this takes longer to compute).
 
        The SORT parameter may be one of `min', `max', or `avg' to sort
        by minimum, maximum or average profit (highest at the top).
 
+       If only FROM is given, the average prices for the given world or
+       economy type are printed in the standard order (i.e., the SORT
+       parameter is ignored).
+
 
   elite-salesman [-OPTIONS] GALAXY [START]
 
@@ -555,7 +564,7 @@ RIGHT ON COMMAND-LINE
        unrewarding) or pirates (risky and tedious), and start trading
        food and other cheap items.
 
-$Id: README,v 1.7 2003/03/07 00:47:13 mdw Exp $
+$Id: README,v 1.9 2003/03/09 23:45:02 mdw Exp $
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