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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index fc268f7..552a327 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ This will build rc in the source directory (see below for details on how
to build rc in a different directory).
There are lots of options you can give to configure to modify rc's
-behaviour. You can also select a command line history library to link
-against. For a summary of all options, run `sh configure --help'.
+behaviour. You can also select a command line history library to
+link against---see the README file for details of where to find these
+libraries. For a summary of all options, run `sh configure --help'.
You can specify Makefile variables by setting the corresponding
environment variables. For example, you might want to set `CC=cc', to
@@ -29,17 +30,13 @@ descending order of usefulness.
--with-editline
- This option tells rc to use Simmule Turner's and Rich $alz's editline
- package, which you can get from the following location. This is
- essentially a lightweight version of GNU readline, providing EMACS
- style command line editing and history.
-
- ftp://ftp.cygnus.co.uk/people/tgoodwin/editline.tar.gz
-
- If the editline library is not installed in a standard place, you can
- tell configure where to find it by setting the environment variable
- LIBS. For example, the maintainer builds rc by copying libedit.a into
- the rc build directory and then running this configure command.
+ This option tells rc to use the editline package (see the README .
+ This is essentially a lightweight version of GNU readline, providing
+ EMACS style command line editing and history. If the editline library
+ is not installed in a standard place, you can tell configure where to
+ find it by setting the environment variable LIBS. For example, the
+ maintainer builds rc by copying libedit.a into the rc build directory
+ and then running this configure command.
LIBS=-L. sh ../rc-1.5b3/configure --with-editline