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diff --git a/README b/README
index 1e688489..faef3ff4 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -4,21 +4,19 @@ This is unreleased alpha software; use it ENTIRELY at your own risk.
 
 ***** WARNING ****** ***** WARNING ****** ***** WARNING ******
 
-This is the README file for dak version -1.
+dak is the collection of programs used to maintain the Debian
+project's archives.  It's not yet in a state where it can be easily
+used by others; if you want something to maintain a small archive and
+apt-ftparchive (from the apt-utils package) is insufficient, I strongly
+recommend you investigate mini-dinstall, debarchiver or similar.
+However, if you insist on trying to try using dak, please read the
+documentation in 'doc/README.first'.
 
-dak is the collection of programs used to maintain the Debian GNU
-project archive.
+There are some manual pages and READMEs in the doc sub-directory.  The
+TODO file is an incomplete list of things needing to be done.
 
-See TODO for an incomplete list of things needing to be done.
-
-See the file NEWS for user-visible changes since the last version.
-
-See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
-
-dak is used on the following platforms :-
-
-Linux/i386 2.2
-Linux/UltraSparc 2.2
+dak is developed and used on Linux but will probably work under any
+UNIX since it's almost entirely python and shell scripts.
 
 dak is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
@@ -28,6 +26,5 @@ version.
 
 -- 
 James Troup <james@nocrew.org>, Horsforth, Leeds
-Wed, 21 Mar 2001 06:35:18 +0000
-
+Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:56:02 +0000