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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This directory tree holds version 21.0.99 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
+This directory tree holds version 21.0.107 of GNU Emacs, the extensible,
 customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
 
 You may encounter bugs in this release.  If you do, please report
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@ in code we don't use often.  See the file BUGS for more information on
 how to report bugs.
 
 See the file etc/NEWS for information on new features and other
-user-visible changes since the last version of Emacs.
+user-visible changes in recent versions of Emacs.
 
 The file INSTALL in this directory says how to bring up GNU Emacs on
-Unix, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this directory.
+various systems, once you have loaded the entire subtree of this
+directory.
 
 The file etc/PROBLEMS contains information on many common problems that
 occur in building, installing and running Emacs.
@@ -23,8 +24,9 @@ in this directory explains how you can find and read that section
 using the Info files that come with Emacs.)  See `etc/MAILINGLISTS'
 for more information on mailing lists relating to GNU packages.
 
-The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in
-capital letters, which you should look at when installing GNU Emacs.
+The `etc' subdirectory contains several other files, named in capital
+letters, which you might consider looking at when installing GNU
+Emacs.
 
 The file `configure' is a shell script to acclimate Emacs to the
 oddities of your processor and operating system.  It creates the file
@@ -33,15 +35,12 @@ process of building and installing Emacs.  See INSTALL for more
 detailed information.
 
 The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
-construct the `configure' script.  Since Emacs has configuration
-requirements that autoconf can't meet, `configure.in' uses an unholy
-marriage of custom-baked configuration code and autoconf macros; it
-may be wise to avoid rebuilding `configure' from `configure.in' when
-possible.
-
-If you do want to rebuild `configure' from `configure.in', you will
-need to install autoconf and GNU m4 (the version of m4 supplied with
-your system might not be enough).
+construct the `configure' script.  Since Emacs has some configuration
+requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical
+reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
+configuration code and autoconf macros.  If you want to rebuild
+`configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent
+version of autoconf and GNU m4.
 
 The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create
 `Makefile'.
@@ -64,13 +63,14 @@ There are several subdirectories:
     subdirectories are architecture-independent too.
 
 `info' holds the Info documentation tree for Emacs.
-`man' holds the source code for the Emacs manual.  If you modify the
+`man' holds the source code for the Emacs Manual.  If you modify the
       manual sources, you will need the `makeinfo' program to produce
       an updated manual.  `makeinfo' is part of the GNU Texinfo
       package; you need version 4.0 or later of Texinfo.
 
-   Note that the Emacs Lisp manual sources are distributed separately.
-(They are twice as large as the Emacs manual in the man subdirectory.)
+   Note that the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual sources are distributed
+separately.  (They are twice as large as the Emacs Manual in the man
+subdirectory.)
 
 `msdos' holds configuration files for compiling Emacs under MSDOG.
 `vms' holds instructions and useful files for running Emacs under VMS.