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-This package contains a beta version of Gnus.  The lisp directory
+This package contains a alpha version of Gnus.  The lisp directory
 contains the source lisp files, and the texi directory contains a
 draft of the Gnus info pages.
 
@@ -6,11 +6,15 @@ To use Gnus you first have to unpack the files, which you've obviously
 done, because you are reading this.
 
 You should definitely byte-compile the source files. To do that, you
-can simply say "./configure && make" in this directory.  If you are
-using XEmacs, you *must* say "make EMACS=xemacs".  In that case you
-may also want to pull down the package of nice glyphs from
-<URL:http://www.gnus.org/dist/etc.tar.gz>.  It should be installed
-into the "gnus-5.6.53/etc" directory.
+can simply say "./configure && make" in this directory.
+
+Do not say "make install".  I repeat, do *NOT* say "make install".  If
+you say "make install" and then complain about things not working,
+I'll be very annoyed.  If you say "make install" and things happen to
+work, that's all fine and dandy for you, but it's quite likely that it
+won't.
+
+If you are using XEmacs, you *must* say "./configure && make EMACS=xemacs".
 
 Then you have to tell Emacs where Gnus is. You might put something
 like
@@ -21,16 +25,28 @@ in your .emacs file, or wherever you keep such things.
 
 To enable reading the Gnus manual, you could say something like:
 
+  (require 'info)
   (setq Info-default-directory-list 
         (cons "~/gnus-5.6.53/texi" Info-default-directory-list))
 
+or
+
+  (require 'info)
+  (setq Info-directory-list 
+        (cons "~/gnus-5.6.53/texi" Info-directory-list))
+
+depending on which version of Emacs or XEmacs you're using.
+
 Note that Gnus and GNUS can't coexist in a single Emacs. They both use
 the same function and variable names.  If you have been running GNUS
 in your Emacs, you should probably exit that Emacs and start a new one
 to fire up Gnus.
 
 Gnus does absolutely not work with anything older than Emacs 20.3 or
-XEmacs 20.0.  So you definitely need a new Emacs.
+XEmacs 20.0.  You definitely need a relatively current Emacs.
+
+To compile the Gnus manual, you either need a pretty new Emacs, or a
+pretty new version of the texinfo tools.
 
 Then you do a `M-x gnus', and everything should... uhm... it should
 work, but it might not. Set `debug-on-error' to t, and mail me the