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@@ -1,41 +1,54 @@
-This is version 3.02 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
-system (GHC).  GHC 3.02 is a compiler for Haskell 1.4.
+The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
+============================
+
+(this file is fptools/ghc/README in a source distribution, and
+fptools/README in a binary distribution).
+
+GHC is a batch compiler for Haskell 98.  See the file ANNOUNCE for
+information on the current version.
 
 Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language.
-Haskell 1.4 is the current version of the language, released in 
-April 1997.  The language definition is on the Web at
-http://www.haskell.org/report/index.html.
+Haskell 98 is the current version of the language, released in 
+December 1998.  The language definition is on the Web at
+http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/Haskell/haskell98.html
+
+More information on GHC can be found on its web page
+
+	http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
 
 GHC documentation of interest:
 
-* docs/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure, build, and
+* docs/installing.{dvi,html}: How to configure, build, and
   install the system.
 
   The document, as with many others, is in TeX-produced DVI format
-  (.dvi suffix), or GNU Info format (.info); the latter is close to
-  plain ASCII, if that's what you want.
+  (.dvi suffix), or HTML.
 
-* ghc/docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what
+* ghc/docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what
   options are available, how to cope with common problems, how to use
   the profiling facilities, etc.
 
+* ghc/docs/libraries/libs.{dvi,html}: Several libraries that are
+  provided by both GHC and Hugs.
+
 We welcome your comments and suggestions about this software!  Please
 do not suffer or grumble in silence.  The "bug reports" section of the
-User's Guide (docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}) says what we
-would like to know when you report a problem.
+User's Guide says what we would like to know when you report a
+problem.
 
-Current AQUA team (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk):
+Current GHC team:
+
+    Simon Peyton Jones	( simonpj@microsoft.com)    [our Fearless Leader]
+    Sigbjorn Finne	(v-sfinne@microsoft.com)    [hired hand]
+    Simon Marlow	(t-simonm@microsoft.com)    [hired hand]
+    Julian Seward       (v-julsew@microsoft.com)    [hired hand]
+
+Past contributors and/or continuing advisors (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk):
 
-    Sigbjorn Finne	(sof)	    [hired hand]
-    Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl)   [PhD student]
-    Simon Marlow	(simonm)    [hired hand]
     Thomas Nordin       (nordin)    [@cse.ogi.edu; Green Card Hero]
-    Simon Peyton Jones	(simonpj)   [our Fearless Leader]
+    Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl)   [PhD student]
     Patrick Sansom	(sansom)    [hired hand, Bidirectional Analyses]
     Phil Trinder	(trinder)   [hired hand, Parade]
-
-Past contributors and/or continuing advisors:
-
     Andy Gill		(andy)	    [PhD student; at HP]
     Cordy Hall		(cvh) 	    [GRASP]
     Kevin Hammond	(kh)	    [GRASP; at St. Andrews]
@@ -49,6 +62,8 @@ Past contributors and/or continuing advisors:
     David N Turner	(dnt)	    [Linear Types; at An-Teallach]
     Phil Wadler		(wadler)    [GRASP; at Lucent]
 
+And many others who've contributed bits of code / bug reports in the past.
+
 Cool people who've let us use their machines:
 
     sparc-sun-sunos{4,5}   PacSoft, Oregon Graduate Institute
@@ -65,14 +80,13 @@ Simon's projects' acronyms:
     GRASP ('90-'92): Graph reduction applications support project
     AQUA  ('93-   ): Declarative systems architecture: a quantitative approach
 
-GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
-
 E-mail contacts:
     glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk	    (bug reports mailing list)
     glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk	    (users' mailing list)
 
 Send mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk with 'help' in the body of the
-message for information on joining either of these mailing lists.
+message for information on joining/leaving either of these mailing
+lists.
 
 Anonymous FTP site: ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk:pub/haskell/glasgow.
 Mostly mirrored by ftp.cs.chalmers.se and haskell.org (same