-This directory tree holds version 21.0.100 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
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.
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
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.