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diff --git a/etc/MACHINES b/etc/MACHINES
index 9c257d192cd..969bce970e8 100644
--- a/etc/MACHINES
+++ b/etc/MACHINES
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 This is a list of the status of GNU Emacs on various machines and systems.
-Last updated 4 March 1991.
+Last updated 10 Feb 1992.
 
 For each system and machine, we give the `-opsystem' and `-machine'
 options you should pass to config.emacs to prepare to build Emacs for
diff --git a/etc/README b/etc/README
index bb7d91f3142..7c49214815d 100644
--- a/etc/README
+++ b/etc/README
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+This directory contains the architecture-independent files used by or
+with Emacs.  This includes some text files of documentation for GNU
+Emacs or of interest to Emacs users, and the file of dumped docstrings
+for Emacs functions and variables.
+
+`termcap.dat' is for VMS.  It is a copy of the `/etc/termcap' file
+used on Unix.
+
 [/amiga/editors/README                          Fri Nov 23 15:37:39 EST 1990]
 
 ue-patches/     Patches to Uedit by Rick Stiles.