Updated documentation.

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@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ Lastly, become root and run
        make install
 
 This will install fetchmail.  By default, fetchmail will be installed
-in /usr/local/bin, with the man page in /usr/local/man/man1, and the
-GNU info file in /usr/local/info.  If you wish to change these defaults,
-edit the Makefile AFTER you run "configure" but BEFORE you run 
-"make install."  You can easily choose a prefix other than /usr/local,
-or you can choose completely different directories for each item.
+in /usr/local/bin, with the man page in /usr/local/man/man1.  If you
+wish to change these defaults, edit the Makefile AFTER you run
+"configure" but BEFORE you run "make install."  You can easily choose
+a prefix other than /usr/local, or you can choose completely different
+directories for each item.
 
 See the man page or the file sample.rcfile for a description of how to
 configure your individual preferences.

diff --git a/README b/README
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@@ -1,13 +1,19 @@
                        README for fetchmail
 
-fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented POP2, POP3, APOP,
-and IMAP client originally developed (under the name popclient) by Carl
-Harris <ceharris@mal.com> and now maintained by Eric S. Raymond
-<esr@thyrsus.com>.
-
-fetchmail was developed under Linux and should be readily portable to other
-UNIX systems (it uses GNU autoconf).  It has also been ported to QNX; to build
-under QNX, see the header comments in the Makefile.
+fetchmail is a full-featured, robust, well-documented POP2, POP3, APOP, and
+IMAP batch mail retrieval utility intended to be used over on-demand TCP/IP
+links (such as SLIP or PPP connections).  It retrieves mail from remote
+mail servers and forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery
+system, where it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as
+elm(1) or Mail(1).
+
+The fetchmail program was originally developed (under the name popclient) by
+Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com> and now maintained by Eric S. Raymond
+<esr@thyrsus.com>.  See the file NEWS for a version history.
+
+The fetchmail code was developed under Linux and should be readily portable
+to other UNIX systems (it uses GNU autoconf).  It has also been ported to
+QNX; to build under QNX, see the header comments in the Makefile.
 
 You can find the latest version of fetchmail from Eric's home page