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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a331387..79f8f6f 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 #
 # INSTALL -- installation instructions
 #
-# $Id$
-#
 
 --------------
 Installing nmh
@@ -14,6 +12,23 @@ You should check the MACHINES file to see if there are any specific
 build instructions for your operating system.  To build nmh, you will
 need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc.
 
+0) If you have obtained nmh by checking it out of CVS, you will
+   need to run the GNU autotools to regenerate some files.
+   (If your directory already contains a file 'config.h.in'
+   then this has already been done and you do not need to do it.)
+   You can regenerate the files by running the command
+
+   ./autogen.sh
+
+   (Note that if you're doing nmh development, you should look at
+   docs/README.developers, since there is other developer-friendly
+   advice there as well.)
+
+   If you have obtained nmh in the form of a tar archive and are
+   trying to unpack it with cpio:  due to an apparent bug in cpio, it
+   might fail with "Malformed number" error messages.  Try another
+   tool to unpack, such as tar or pax.
+
 1) From the top-level source directory, run the command
 
    ./configure [options]
@@ -75,13 +90,7 @@ need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc.
    Check the `mh-tailor' man page for a list of all the available options
    for this file ("masquerade" may be of particular interest).
 
-6) If you have enabled POP support, make sure that `pop3' (or more
-   precisely the value of the define POPSERVICE in config.h) is defined
-   in the /etc/services file (or its NIS/NIS+ equivalent) on the client
-   machine.  It should be something equivalent to "110/tcp".  This might
-   have already been done when the POP daemon was installed.
-
-7) Edit the file `mhn.defaults' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory).
+6) Edit the file `mhn.defaults' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory).
    This file contains the default profile entries for the nmh command
    `mhn' and is created by the script `mhn.defaults.sh'.  This script
    will search a generic path (essentially your $PATH) for programs to
@@ -102,7 +111,7 @@ need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc.
    "MH & xmh: Email for Users and Programmers", 3rd edition, by Jerry Peek,
    on the Internet at <http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/confmhn.htm>.
 
-9) Add an optional global mh.profile, if desired.  This profile should be
+7) Add an optional global mh.profile, if desired.  This profile should be
    placed in the nmh `etc' directory with the name `mh.profile'.  This
    file will be used to construct the initial .mh_profile of a new nmh
    user, but will not be consulted after that.
@@ -183,9 +192,6 @@ Options for configure
 
      See the mh-tailor(5) man page for full documentation of "masquerade:".
 
---enable-mhe    (DEFAULT)
-     Add support for the Emacs front-end `mhe'.
-
 --enable-pop
      Enable client-side support for pop.