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 This is an example to use [iroh](https://crates.io/crates/iroh) to create a dumb pipe to connect two machines with a QUIC connection.
 
-Iroh will take case of hole punching and NAT traversal whenever possible, and fall back to a
+Iroh will take care of hole punching and NAT traversal whenever possible, and fall back to a
 relay if hole punching does not succeed.
 
 It is also useful as a standalone tool for quick copy jobs.
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ E.g. here is how to interact with the iroh-blobs
 protocol:
 
 ```
-echo request1.bin | dumbpipe connect <ticket> --custom-alpn utf8:/iroh-bytes/2 > response1.bin 
+echo request1.bin | dumbpipe connect <ticket> --custom-alpn utf8:/iroh-bytes/2 > response1.bin
 ```
 
 (`/iroh-bytes/2` is the ALPN string for the iroh-blobs protocol, which used to be called iroh-bytes.)