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@@ -2,48 +2,34 @@ GENERAL INFORMATION
 
 Welcome to SBCL.
 
+If you'd like to install or build the system, see the "INSTALL" file.
+
 To find out more about who created the system, see the "CREDITS" file.
 
 If you'd like information about the legalities of copying the system,
 see the "COPYING" file.
 
-If you'd like to install or build the system, see the "INSTALL" file.
-
 If you'd like more information about using the system, see the man
-page, "sbcl.1", or the user manual in the "doc/" subdirectory of the
-distribution. (The user manual is maintained as DocBook SGML in the
-source distribution; there is an HTML version in the binary
-distribution.)
+page, "sbcl.1", or the user manual in the "doc/manual" subdirectory of
+the distribution. (The user manual is maintained as Texinfo in the
+source distribution; HTML version is available for download, and
+"INSTALL" describes how to build the Texinfo version in HTML and PDF.)
 
 The system is a work in progress. See the "TODO" file in the source
 distribution for some highlights.
 
+The "BUGS" file lists current known bugs.
+
 If you'd like to make suggestions, report a bug, or help to improve the
 system, please send mail to one of the mailing lists:
   sbcl-help@lists.sourceforge.net
   sbcl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
+Note that as a spam reduction measure you must subscribe to the lists
+before you can post.
 
 
 SYSTEM-SPECIFIC HINTS
 
-for OpenBSD:
-  OpenBSD 3.0 has stricter ulimit values, and/or enforces them more
-  strictly, than its predecessors. Therefore SBCL's initial mmap()
-  won't work unless you increase the limit on the data segment from
-  the OpenBSD defaults, e.g. with
-    ulimit -S -d 1000000
-  before you run SBCL. Otherwise SBCL fails with a message like
-  "ensure_space: failed to validate xxxxxxx bytes at yyyyy". (SBCL
-  is just allocating this huge address space, not actually using this
-  huge memory at this point. OpenBSD <3.0 had no problem with this,
-  but OpenBSD 3.0 is less hospitable.)
-
-for Darwin:
-  PURIFY (which can be used alone but is also used by the system when
-  saving a new core) uses more stack than the default limit on MacOS
-  X.2.  Therefore, in order to get PURIFY to work reliably, you need
-  to increase the limit, with e.g.
-    limit stack 8192 # for the default shell, tcsh
-    ulimit -s 8192 # for bash
-  before running SBCL.  This is also necessary when building the system
-  from sources, as part of the build process involves saving a new core.
+for NetBSD:
+  NetBSD 2.0 and above are required because of the lack of needed
+  signal APIs in NetBSD 1.6 and earlier.