Addition.

[elisp/gnus.git-] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index f845bbd..6249e88 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-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.
 
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ 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/etc.tar.gz>.  It should be installed
+<URL:http://www.gnus.org/dist/etc.tar.gz>.  It should be installed
 into the "gnus-5.6.53/etc" directory.
 
 Then you have to tell Emacs where Gnus is. You might put something
@@ -21,16 +21,28 @@ 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.  So you definitely need a new 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