diff --git a/contrib/adc/help b/contrib/adc/help
index 9c2289e..82912e0 100755
--- a/contrib/adc/help
+++ b/contrib/adc/help
@@ -37,11 +37,11 @@
 [ -f $HOME/gl-adc-pre-help.txt ] && cat $HOME/gl-adc-pre-help.txt
 
 # default help text
-cat <<EOF
+echo "
 
 The following adc's (admin-defined commands) are available at this site.
 
-creating a "fork" of a repo:
+creating a 'fork' of a repo:
     the 'fork' adc forks a repo that you have read access to, to a repo that
     you have create rights to
 
@@ -51,13 +51,13 @@ deleting/trashing repos:
     repo before you can 'rm' it.
 
     A different scheme of handling this is to use 'trash' to move the repo to
-    a "trashcan" area.  You can then 'list-trash' to see what you have, and
+    a 'trashcan' area.  You can then 'list-trash' to see what you have, and
     you can then 'restore' whichever repo you need to bring back.
 
-    More details can be found at:
-    http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/contrib/adc/repo-deletion.html
+    More details can be found in contrib/adc/repo-deletion.mkd (or online at
+    http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/wild_repodel.html)
 
-EOF
+"
 
 # post
 [ -f $HOME/gl-adc-post-help.txt ] && cat $HOME/gl-adc-post-help.txt
diff --git a/src/gl-admin-push b/src/gl-admin-push
index 3fd0214..4031e93 100755
--- a/src/gl-admin-push
+++ b/src/gl-admin-push
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ die() { echo "$@" >&2; exit 1; }
     GL_BINDIR=`  perl -ne 'print($1), exit if /^command="(.+?)\/gl-(time|auth-command) /' < $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys`
 # GL_BINDIR still not known?  we have a problem...
 [ -z "$GL_BINDIR" ] && {
-    cat <<EOF2
+    echo "
 
 Unable to determine correct path for gitolite scripts from the authkeys file.
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ this command.  For example (if you followed doc/http-backend.mkd precisely):
 
     GL_BINDIR=/var/www/gitolite-home/bin $0 $@
 
-EOF2
+"
     exit 1
 }
 
diff --git a/src/gl-setup b/src/gl-setup
index 7bf8881..b00560a 100755
--- a/src/gl-setup
+++ b/src/gl-setup
@@ -110,13 +110,13 @@ GL_ADMINDIR=`get_rc_val GL_ADMINDIR`
 gl-install -q
 
 [ -f $GL_ADMINDIR/conf/gitolite.conf ] || {
-    cat <<EOF | cut -c9- > $GL_ADMINDIR/conf/gitolite.conf
+    echo "
         repo    gitolite-admin
                 RW+     =   $admin_name
 
         repo    testing
                 RW+     =   @all
-EOF
+    " | cut -c9- > $GL_ADMINDIR/conf/gitolite.conf
 }
 [ -n "$pubkey_file" ] && cp $pubkey_file $GL_ADMINDIR/keydir