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diff --git a/distrib/INSTALL b/distrib/INSTALL
index aa64209..260d74d 100644
--- a/distrib/INSTALL
+++ b/distrib/INSTALL
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
-This is the INSTALL instructions for a binary bundle of the
-Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System. For more details
-on what on earth this package is up to, please consult the README
-and ANNOUNCE.
+This is the INSTALL instructions for a binary distribution of one of
+the fptools projects. For more details on what on earth this package
+is up to, please consult the README and ANNOUNCE.
 
 To start using the bundle, you can either:
 
 * use it in-place, i.e., don't go ahead with a
   full install, but just set it up to use the unpacked
-  distribution from where it was unpacked.
+  distribution in-situ.
 
 * get it over with, and do the full install (details of how are ahead).
 
@@ -18,57 +17,35 @@ the script with --help to see what options it supports).
 
 This will figure out what platform you're running on, and a couple of other
 interesting pieces of trivia, which it will then fill in the Makefile.in
-template to give you a real Makefile.
-
-Have a look at the Makefile to see if you agree with the information
-therein. If you want to use the bundle in-place, now run `make in-place'.
-If you're installing, `make install' (`make show-install-setup' prints
-the details of where the different pieces of the bundle are heading when
--- possibly helpful).
-
-For more information, please consult the installation guide in
-{html,dvi,info}/ghc-2.10/installing{.dvi,.info,_toc.html}.
-
-Bug reports/suggestions for improvement to the installation procedure/setup
-(as well as other GHC related troubles you're experiencing, of course),
-gratefully received at glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk
-
-Enjoy.
+template to give you a real Makefile. 
 
+[Win32 users: don't be alarmed if you should encounter the following
+ message from the configure script:
+  
+      not updating unwritable cache ./config.cache
 
--------Win32 users only----------------------------------------
-NOTE to Win32 users: to enjoy any sort of happiness with the GHC
-tools, you will have to install the cygwin32 toolchain, which dresses
-up the Win32 environment into something more UNIX-like (which
-this initial port of ghc relies on being the case). The cygwin32 tools
-are available from
+This is a known problem of generated autoconf configure scripts running
+on cygwin, but harmless (it only means you get to re-do all the configure
+tests should you decide to re-run the script.)
+]
 
-    ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/
-       (Cygnus Solutions; Mt. View, CA.)
-    ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/gnu/cygnus/gnu-win32/
-        (Sunsite Northern Europe; Imperial College, London)
-    ftp://ftp.crl.go.jp/pub/GNU/cygnus/gnu-win32/
-	(CRL, Ministry of Posts and Telecom., Japan)
+Have a look at the Makefile to see if you agree with the information
+therein. If you want to use the bundle in-place, now run:
 
-GHC was built with beta18 of the cygwin32 tools and depends on
-it to work.
+	make in-place
 
-The GHC tools are also quite picky about Perl, the commonly-used
-Hip/ActiveWare Win32 port of perl5 just ain't Cool Enough (main reason: 
-GHC scripts assume they are talking to an underlying UNIX command
-shell). A basic port of perl5.004 done on top of cygwin32-b18 is
-is available from 
+If you're installing,  run
 
-   ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/working/perl5-004pl1.zip
+	make install 
 
-this port is by no means complete, but is sufficient for our needs.
-(more complete perl5 cygwin32 binary bundles are available
- elsewhere - search the web if you need it.)
+(`make show-install-setup' prints the details of where the different
+pieces of the bundle are heading when -- possibly helpful).
 
-Install both cygwin32&perl5 before continuing.
+GHC's installation instructions have more information, check out
+http://www.haskell.org/ghc/documentation.html.
 
-NOTE: If you're planning to install ghc on a drive different from
-where you're going to compile programs, you need to change the TMPDIR
-variable in the Makefile to "."
+Bug reports/suggestions for improvement to the installation procedure/setup
+(as well as other GHC related troubles you're experiencing, of course),
+gratefully received at glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk
 
--------Win32 users only----------------------------------------
+Enjoy.