diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c13271a..7e1f662 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "author": "Moos <mooster@42at.com>",
   "keywords": ["natural", "language", "wordnet", "pos"],
   "description": "wordpos is a set of part-of-speech utilities for Node.js using natural's WordNet module.",
-  "version": "0.1.7",
+  "version": "0.1.8",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/moos/wordpos",
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=0.6"
diff --git a/tools/buffered-reader.js b/tools/buffered-reader.js
index 12db383..ffd283b 100644
--- a/tools/buffered-reader.js
+++ b/tools/buffered-reader.js
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ BufferedReader.prototype.interrupt = function (){
 BufferedReader.prototype.read = function (){
   var stream = FS.createReadStream (this._fileName, this._settings);
 
+  // node version change: stream.encoding no longer exposed
+  stream.encoding = this._settings.encoding;
+
   var lastChunk;
   var buffer;
   var me = this;
diff --git a/tools/validate.js b/tools/validate.js
index 0cbe603..e9fa3f0 100644
--- a/tools/validate.js
+++ b/tools/validate.js
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ var
   BufferedReader = require ("../tools/buffered-reader"),
   _ = require('underscore')._,
   path = require('path'),
+  fs = require('fs'),
   results = {},
   puts = _.compose(function(a){ process.stdout.write(a)}, util.format);
 
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ if (!fs.existsSync(indexFile)) {
 }
 
 function usage() {
-  console.log('#Usage:\nnode stat index.adv');
+  console.log('#Usage:\nnode validate.js index.adv');
   process.exit(1);
 }