diff --git a/examples/COUPLE/lammps_spparks/README b/examples/COUPLE/lammps_spparks/README
index a8fc2140d6..248ee023ee 100644
--- a/examples/COUPLE/lammps_spparks/README
+++ b/examples/COUPLE/lammps_spparks/README
@@ -1,44 +1,39 @@
-IMPORTANT NOTE: This example has not been updated since 2013,
-so it is not likely to work anymore out of the box.  There have
-been changes to LAMMPS and its library interface that would need
-to be applied. Please see the manual for the documentation of
-the library interface.
-
 This directory has an application that models grain growth in the
 presence of strain.
 
-The grain growth is simulated by a Potts model in a kinetic Monte
-Carlo code SPPARKS.  Clusters of like spins on a lattice represent
-grains.  The Hamiltonian for the energy due of a collection of spins
-includes a strain term and is described on this page in the SPPARKS
-documentation:
+The grain growth is simulated by a Potts model in the kinetic Monte
+Carlo code SPPARKS -- https://spparks.github.io
 
-http://spparks.sandia.gov/doc/app_potts_strain.html.
+Clusters of like spins on a lattice represent grains.  The Hamiltonian
+for the energy due of a collection of spins includes a strain term and
+is described on this page in the SPPARKS documentation:
 
-The strain is computed by the molecular dynamics code LAMMPS as a
-particle displacement where pairs of atoms across a grain boundary are
-of different types and thus push off from each other due to a
-Lennard-Jones sigma between particles of different types that is
-larger than the sigma between particles of the same type (interior to
-grains).
+https://spparks.github.io/doc/app_potts_strain.html
+
+The strain is computed by the LAMMPS molecular dynamics code --
+https://www.lammps.org -- as a particle displacement where pairs of
+atoms across a grain boundary are of different types and thus push off
+from each other due to a Lennard-Jones sigma between particles of
+different types that is larger than the sigma between particles of the
+same type (interior to grains).
 
 lmpspk.cpp          main program
-                    it links LAMMPS and SPPARKS as libraries
+                    it links to LAMMPS and SPPARKS as libraries
 in.spparks          SPPARKS input script, without the run command
 lmppath.h           contains path to LAMMPS home directory
 spkpath.h           contains path to SPPARKS home directory
 
-After editing the Makefile, lmppath.h, and spkpath.h to make them
-suitable for your box, type:
+After editing the Makefile.g++, lmppath.h, and spkpath.h files to make
+them suitable for your box, type:
 
 make -f Makefile.g++
 
-and you should get the lmpspk executable.
+and you should get a lmpspk executable.
 
 NOTE: To build and run this coupled application, you must of course,
 have SPPARKS built on your system.  It's WWW site is
 http://www.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/spparks.html.  It is an open-source
-code, written by two of the LAMMPS authors.
+code.
 
 You can run lmpspk in serial or parallel as:
 
@@ -52,7 +47,7 @@ Ndelta = time to run MC in each iteration
 Sfactor = multiplier on strain effect
 in.spparks = SPPARKS input script
 
-The log files are for this run:
+The log files included in this directory are for this run:
 
 % lmpspk 20 10.0 1 in.spparks
 
diff --git a/examples/COUPLE/lammps_spparks/lmpspk.cpp b/examples/COUPLE/lammps_spparks/lmpspk.cpp
index 21095e1b00..887a822819 100644
--- a/examples/COUPLE/lammps_spparks/lmpspk.cpp
+++ b/examples/COUPLE/lammps_spparks/lmpspk.cpp
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 #include "lammps_data_write.h"
 #include "many2many.h"
 #include "memory.h"
-#include "error.h"
+#include "errorlib.h"
 
 #define QUOTE_(x) #x
 #define QUOTE(x) QUOTE_(x)
diff --git a/examples/COUPLE/library/lammps_data_write.cpp b/examples/COUPLE/library/lammps_data_write.cpp
index 9d1039ff47..274771fa2f 100644
--- a/examples/COUPLE/library/lammps_data_write.cpp
+++ b/examples/COUPLE/library/lammps_data_write.cpp
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #include <cstring>
 #include "lammps_data_write.h"
 #include "memory.h"
-#include "error.h"
+#include "errorlib.h"
 
 #define DELTA 4;