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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ extensible programs.
 
 Please send bug reports to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
 
+
 Important Facts About Snapshots ======================================
 
 Please keep in mind that these sources are strictly experimental; they
@@ -34,8 +35,25 @@ prep.ai.mit.edu, as /pub/gnu/guile-1.0.tar.gz.
 Via the web, that's:  ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/guile-1.0.tar.gz
 For getit, that's:    prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/guile-1.0.tar.gz
 
+The mailing list `guile@cygnus.com' carries discussions, questions,
+and often answers, about Guile.  To subscribe, send mail to
+guile-request@cygnus.com.  Of course, please send bug reports (and
+fixes!) to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
+
+
+About This Distribution ==============================================
+
+Building and installing this distribution gives you:
+guile --- a stand-alone interpreter for Guile, usually installed in
+       /usr/local/bin.  With no arguments, this is a simple
+       interactive Scheme interpreter.  It can also be used as an
+       interpreter for script files; see the NEWS file for details.
+libguile.a --- an object library containing the Guile interpreter,
+       usually installed in /usr/local/lib.  You can use Guile in
+       your own programs by linking against this.
+<libguile.h>, <libguile/*.h> --- header files for libguile.a, usually
+       installed in /usr/local/include.
 
-Contents Of This Distribution ========================================
 
 Interesting files include:
 - INSTALL, which contains instructions on building and installing Guile.
@@ -61,18 +79,11 @@ gtcltk-lib:
        which will make possible a clean, direct interface between
        Guile and Tk, so we're providing this very simple-minded
        interface until that's ready.
-threads: Glue code for using various threads packages from Guile, including
-       qt (see below).
 
 This distribution also includes `qt', a cooperative threads package
 from Washington University, which Guile can use.  Qt is under a
 separate copyright; see `qt/README' for more details.
 
-The mailing list `guile@cygnus.com' carries discussions, questions,
-and often answers, about Guile.  To subscribe, send mail to
-guile-request@cygnus.com.  Of course, please send bug reports (and
-fixes!) to bug-guile@prep.ai.mit.edu.
-
 
 Hacking It Yourself ==================================================
 
@@ -88,16 +99,16 @@ Autoconf 2.12 --- a system for automatically generate `configure'
        program would like to use.  Available in
        "ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu".
 
-Automake 1.1l --- a system for automatically generating Makefiles that
+Automake 1.1n --- a system for automatically generating Makefiles that
        conform to the (rather Byzantine) GNU coding standards.  The
        nice thing is that it takes care of hairy targets like 'make
        dist' and 'make distclean', and automatically generates
        Makefile dependencies.  Available in
        "ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey".
 
-libtool 0.7 --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed
+libtool 0.9d --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed
        on various systems to produce shared libraries.  Available in
-       "http://casual1.enci.ucalgary.ca/~gord/src/".
+       "ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu".
 
 You are lost in a little maze of automatically generated files, all
 different.
@@ -139,5 +150,3 @@ evaluator.
 George Carrette wrote SIOD, a stand-alone scheme interpreter.
 Although most of this code as been rewritten or replaced over time,
 the garbage collector from SIOD is still an important part of Guile.
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-