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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index c1a91f0..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.
@@ -171,20 +180,18 @@ Options for configure
      Enable debugging support.
 
 --enable-masquerade[='draft_from mmailid username_extension']    
-     If this option is not specified, the mts.conf file will contain the line
-     "masquerade: " (with no value), which may be manually edited later.  You
-     may find it convenient to specify a value at configure-time, however, so
-     that each time nmh is reinstalled, the right value will be there.
+     If this option is disabled, the mts.conf file will contain the
+     line "masquerade: " (with no value), which may be manually edited
+     later.  You may find it convenient to specify a value at
+     configure-time, however, so that each time nmh is reinstalled,
+     the right value will be there.  By default, it is enabled.
 
-     The above usage shows all three masquerade options being specified, but any
-     subset of the three may be specified.  If you do want to enable all three,
-     you can simply use `configure --enable-masquerade' as a shortcut.
+     The above usage shows the default, with all three masquerade
+     options being specified.  Any subset of the three may be
+     specified.
 
      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.
 
@@ -246,6 +253,17 @@ Options for configure
      If you wish to use a transport agent other than sendmail, you will
      need to use a `sendmail wrapper'.
 
+--with-ndbm=LIB    (DEFAULT is to autodetect)
+--with-ndbmheader=HEADER     (DEFAULT is to autodetect)
+     Specify the header file (eg ndbm.h) and library (eg ndbm) to use
+     to compile against the ndbm database library. By default, configure
+     will try various possibilities until it finds one that works; this
+     option only needs to be specified if the autodetection fails or
+     makes the wrong choice.
+
+     If either of these options is given then the other must also be
+     specified.
+
 --with-pager=PAGER    (DEFAULT is more)
      Specify the default pager (file lister) to use.  If this option
      is not given, then the configuration process will search for the