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+DMAKE 4.12
+==========
+
+This directory tree contains a number of files.  Here is a short
+description of what each file contains so that you do not need to
+search as much.  There is also a recommended order for reading them.
+
+    read1st.txt - This file; generic information.
+    intro.txt   - Short note describing what 'dmake' is and where to
+                  get it from.
+    release.txt - Changes of previous releases, and release specific
+                  notes. (Not longer continued.)
+    ../NEWS     - Changes from previous release. (Continuation of
+                  release.txt.)
+    ../man/     - directory containing DMAKE manual page.
+
+    public/     - Old build and installation instructions
+                  for the Dmake 4.1 public release. As of Dmake 4.2
+                  dmake switched to an autotools based build system
+                  and these instructions are not longer valid for
+                  operating systems that are supported by the autotools
+                  system.
+                  If you are on a system that is not supported you
+                  might still find some useful information there.
+
+Building Dmake
+==============
+
+With autotools
+--------------
+Building dmake on systems that are supported by the autotools build system
+only requires the usual "./configure && make && make install" command.
+The configure command will notify you when your platform is not supported.
+
+With Microsoft C++ compiler
+---------------------------
+For MS Visual C++ 6 and up run "make.bat win95-vpp40" in a command shell.
+This should create a dmake.exe in the top-level directory.
+
+It is possible to rename this to, say, dmake0.exe, delete the objects/
+sub-directory and then simply run "dmake0.exe" to build a new dmake.exe.
+Note that it is not necessary to have dmake rebuild itself in this way,
+but it is a nice test that your new dmake is working to see that it can.
+
+To install dmake, simply copy dmake.exe and the startup/ sub-directory to
+a directory of your choice.  You may also want to copy the man/
+sub-directory for future access to the manual page.
+
+
+All other systems might look in the public/ directory for usefull hints.
+
+
+The original sources of dmake were available on http://dmake.wticorp.com.
+This site has not been reachable for some time and the source is hosted
+in the OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/ cvs now. You can view
+the source at: http://tools.openoffice.org/source/browse/tools/dmake.
+Please send questions regarding dmake to the tools project mailing list
+at dev@tools.openoffice.org.