* README (Guile Documentation, About This Distribution): updated.

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 Guile Documentation ==================================================
 
-There is some preliminary documentation for Guile under the directory
-doc.  The real Guile manual is incomplete, and is currently being
-revised.  A development snapshot of the manual is available at
-ftp.red-bean.com as /pub/guile/snapshots/guile-doc-snap.tar.gz.
+The doc directory contains a few articles on specific topics and some
+examples, including data-rep.texi which describes the internal
+representation of data types in Guile.  The example-smob directory
+contains example source code for the "Defining New Types (Smobs)" chapter.
 
+The incomplete Guile reference manual is available at
+ftp://ftp.red-bean.com/pub/guile/snapshots/guile-doc-snap.tar.gz
+
+There is a plan to distribute the reference manual with guile-core,
+with much of the text generated from the docstrings in the sources.
+The docstrings are likely to be more up-to-date than the reference
+manual at present (see libguile/guile-procedures.txt which is
+generated by the build process).
 
 About This Distribution ==============================================
 
 Interesting files include:
+
 - INSTALL, which contains instructions on building and installing Guile.
 - NEWS, which describes user-visible changes since the last release of Guile.
 - COPYING, which describes the terms under which you may redistribute
   Guile, and explains that there is no warranty.
 
-Building and installing this distribution gives you:
-guile --- a stand-alone interpreter for Guile, usually installed in
-	/usr/local/bin.  With no arguments, this is a simple
-	interactive Scheme interpreter.  It can also be used as an
-	interpreter for script files; see the NEWS file for details.
+Files are usually installed according to the prefix specified to
+configure, /usr/local by default.  Building and installing gives you:
+
+Executables, in ${prefix}/bin:
+
+guile --- a stand-alone interpreter for Guile.  With no arguments, this
+	is a simple interactive Scheme interpreter.  It can also be used
+	as an interpreter for script files; see the NEWS file for details.
 guile-config --- a Guile script which provides the information necessary
 	to link your programs against the Guile library.
 guile-snarf --- a script to parse declarations in your C code for 
-	Scheme-visible C functions, Scheme objects to be used by C code, etc.
+	Scheme-visible C functions, Scheme objects to be used by C code,
+	etc.
+
+Libraries, in ${prefix}/lib.  Depending on the platform and options
+        given to configure, you may get shared libraries in addition
+	to or instead of these static libraries:
+	
 libguile.a --- an object library containing the Guile interpreter,
-	usually installed in /usr/local/lib.  You can use Guile in
-	your own programs by linking against this.
+	You can use Guile in your own programs by linking against this.
 libqthreads.a --- an object library containing the QuickThreads
 	primitives.  If you enabled thread support when you configured
 	Guile, you will need to link your code against this too.
 libguilereadline.a --- an object library containing glue code for the
         GNU readline library.  See NEWS for instructions on how to enable
 	readline for your personal use.
-<libguile.h>, <guile/gh.h>, <libguile/*.h> --- header files for
-	libguile.a, usually installed in /usr/local/include.
-ice-9, ice-9/*.scm --- run-time support for Guile: the module
-	system, read-eval-print loop, some R4RS code and other
-	infrastructure.  Usually installed in
-	/usr/local/share/guile/<version>.
-data-rep.info --- An essay on how to write C code that works with
+
+Header files, in ${prefix}/include:
+
+libguile.h, guile/gh.h, libguile/*.h --- for libguile.
+guile-readline/readline.h --- for guile-readline.
+
+Support files, in ${prefix}/share/guile/<version>:
+
+ice-9/* --- run-time support for Guile: the module system,
+	read-eval-print loop, some R4RS code and other infrastructure.
+
+Automake macros, in ${prefix}/share/aclocal:
+
+guile.m4
+
+Documentation in Info format, in ${prefix}/info:
+
+data-rep.info --- an essay on how to write C code that works with
 	Guile Scheme values.
 
 The Guile source tree is laid out as follows:
@@ -70,14 +98,7 @@ guile-readline:
         The glue code for using GNU readline with Guile.  This
         will be build when configure can find a recent enough readline
         library on your system.
-doc:	Some preliminary documentation for Guile.  The real Guile
-	manual is incomplete, and is currently being revised.
-	A development snapshot of the manual is available at
-        ftp.red-bean.com as /pub/guile/snapshots/guile-doc-snap.tar.gz.
-doc/example-smob: Sample code, discussed in the preliminary
-	documentation above, for a program that extends Guile with a
-	new data type, and functions that operate on it.
-
+doc:	Documentation (see above).
 
 Anonymous CVS Access and FTP snapshots ===============================
 
@@ -99,10 +120,8 @@ guile-cvs-subscribe-foo=bar.com@sourceware.cygnus.com.
 Obtaining Guile ======================================================
 
 The latest official Guile release is available via anonymous FTP from
-ftp.gnu.org, as /pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.3.4.tar.gz.
 
-Via the web, that's:  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.3.4.tar.gz
-For getit, that's:    ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.3.4.tar.gz
+ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile/guile-1.3.4.tar.gz
 
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