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+This is the INSTALL instructions for a binary bundle of the
+Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System. For more details
+on what on earth this package is up to, please consult the README
+and ANNOUNCE.
+
+To start using the bundle, you can either:
+
+* use it in-place, i.e., don't go ahead with a
+  full install, but just set it up to use the unpacked
+  distribution from where it was unpacked.
+
+* get it over with, and do the full install (details of how are ahead).
+
+NOTE Win32 users: see comment below before continuing.
+
+To set the ball rolling, run the configure script (as usual, run
+the script with --help to see what options it supports).
+
+This will figure out what platform you're running on, and a couple of other
+interesting pieces of trivia, which it will then fill in the Makefile.in
+template to give you a real Makefile.
+
+Have a look at the Makefile to see if you agree with the information
+therein. If you want to use the bundle in-place, now run `make in-place'.
+If you're installing, `make install' (`make show-install-setup' prints
+the details of where the different pieces of the bundle are heading when
+-- possibly helpful).
+
+For more information, please consult the installation guide in
+{html,dvi,info}/ghc-2.02/installing{.dvi,.info,_toc.html}.
+
+Bug reports/suggestions for improvement to the installation procedure/setup
+(as well as other GHC related troubles you're experiencing, of course),
+gratefully received at glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk
+
+Enjoy.
+
+
+-------Win32 users only----------------------------------------
+NOTE to Win32 users: to enjoy any sort of happiness with the GHC
+tools, you will have to install the cygwin32 toolchain, which dresses
+up the Win32 environment into something more UNIX-like (which
+this initial port of ghc relies on being the case). The cygwin32 tools
+are available from
+
+    ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/gnu-win32-b17.1/   
+       (Cygnus Solutions; Mt. View, CA.)
+    ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/gnu/cygnus/gnu-win32/
+        (Sunsite Northern Europe; Imperial College, London)
+    ftp://ftp.crl.go.jp/pub/GNU/cygnus/gnu-win32/
+	(CRL, Ministry of Posts and Telecom., Japan)
+
+GHC was built with beta17 - you *might* get away with beta16 if you've already got it
+installed...not tested this though.
+
+The GHC tools are also quite picky about Perl, the commonly-used
+Hip/ActiveWare Win32 port of perl5 just ain't Cool Enough (main reason: 
+GHC scripts assume they are talking to an underlying UNIX command
+shell). A port of perl5.003 done on top of cygwin32-b17 is just
+the ticket though, it is available from 
+
+   http://www.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/gnu-win32/
+
+this port is not complete - but the binaries available from there
+are sufficiently wonderful.
+
+Install both cygwin32&perl5 before continuing.
+
+Future releases of GHC for Win32 may very well avoid relying on
+cygwin32 to operate, for various reasons..
+
+-------Win32 users only----------------------------------------