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diff --git a/distrib/INSTALL b/distrib/INSTALL
index 53b9449..6e209cd 100644
--- a/distrib/INSTALL
+++ b/distrib/INSTALL
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ 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).
 
@@ -18,7 +18,17 @@ 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.
+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
+
+This is a known problem of generated autoconf configure scripts running
+on cygwin32, but harmless (it only means you get to re-do all the configure
+tests should you decide to re-run the script.)
+]
 
 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'.
@@ -27,7 +37,7 @@ 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-2.02/installing{.dvi,.info,_toc.html}.
+{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),
@@ -43,30 +53,45 @@ 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
 
-    ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/gnu-win32-b17.1/   
+    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)
 
-GHC was built with beta17 - you *might* get away with beta16 if you've already got it
-installed...not tested this though.
+GHC was built with beta18 of the cygwin32 tools and depends on
+it to work.
 
 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 port of perl5.003 done on top of cygwin32-b17 is just
-the ticket though, it is available from 
-
-   http://www.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/gnu-win32/
-
-this port is not complete - but the binaries available from there
-are sufficiently wonderful.
-
-Install both cygwin32&perl5 before continuing.
-
-Future releases of GHC for Win32 may very well avoid relying on
-cygwin32 to operate, for various reasons..
+shell). A basic port of perl5.004 done on top of cygwin32-b18 is
+is available from 
+
+   ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/working/perl5-004pl1.zip
+
+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.)
+
+Install both cygwin32&perl5 before continuing. Couple of things
+to remember doing while installing these two:
+
+  - Create a toplevel /bin directory, and copy bash.exe into it
+    as sh.exe (we'll need this for running the configure script.)
+    Add /bin to your PATH.
+  - Create a toplevel /tmp directory.
+  - If you don't have a good reason not to, it is also recommended
+    that you also put the perl binary inside /bin as well. Don't
+    put it inside the bin/ directory inside the installed cygwin32
+    tree, as this is likely to cause #! not to work on perl scripts
+    (path is likely to exceed 32 chars.)
+
+NOTE: If you're planning to install ghc on a drive different from
+where you're going to compile programs, you either need to
+change the TMPDIR variable in the Makefile to "." or the
+environment variable TMPDIR to "." when running ghc. This is clearly
+not desirable, but the only solution known to work under beta18.
 
 -------Win32 users only----------------------------------------