Re: [AD] README/API patch

[Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Here is a patch that adds a link to the API info wrt deprecation, as well
> as a couple of other minor mods.

Thanks. Note that readme.txt doesn't exist in the CVS repository any longer, 
because it is now generated by makedoc. I commited the attached patch.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

--- /home/eric/cvs/allegro/docs/src/readme._tx	Sat Oct 26 10:50:45 2002
+++ allegro/docs/src/readme._tx	Tue Nov  5 12:00:01 2002
@@ -77,9 +77,13 @@
    MacOS/MPW         - see docs/build/macos.txt
    Darwin/MacOS X    - see docs/build/darwin.txt
 <endblock>
-   General API information can be found in the main manual (usually referred
-   as docs/txt/allegro.txt or simply allegro.txt through this document), which
-   is also available in HTML, TexInfo, and RTF format in the docs directory.
+   General API information can be found in the main manual, usually referred
+   to as docs/txt/allegro.txt or simply allegro.txt throughout this document
+   and which is also available in HTML, TexInfo, and RTF format in the docs
+   directory.
+
+   Information about changes in the API and deprecated features can be found
+   in docs/txt/api.txt (also available in HTML, TexInfo, and RTF format).
 
 
 
@@ -287,20 +291,24 @@
    [Alleg5] - Allegro 5 - <link>http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/alleg-bigfive</a>.<p>
 
       Just as described in the future (<link>http://alleg.sourceforge.net/future.html</a>)
-      section, the next big verision of Allegro will feature at least a
+      section, the next big version of Allegro will feature at least a
       complete API rewrite to fix all the quirks it has now. This list is for
       discussing the future API, proposing new functions or modifying the
       behaviour of actual ones, and posting code with the implementation if
       it's possible to do so.
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