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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a331387..8d317e0 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 #
 # INSTALL -- installation instructions
 #
-# $Id$
-#
 
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 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]