diff --git a/README b/README
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@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 %W%
 
+XXX--get to cope with attempts to make zones such as "Europe/Berlin" the
+XXX--POSIX template.  Either must make doing so work, or catch the attempt in
+XXX--zic.  Catching the attempt in zic is half-hearted at best, since
+XXX--someone could manually change the link later.
+
 "What time is it?" -- Richard Deacon as The King
 "Any time you want it to be." -- Frank Baxter as The Scientist
 					(from the Bell System film on time)
@@ -22,13 +27,6 @@ and as "part of the application" in others, there's no good way to name
 functions, such as timegm, that are not part of the proposed ANSI C standard;
 such functions have kept their old, underscore-free names in this update.)
 
-Support for the tz_abbr variable has been eliminated from this version
-(to forestall "kitchen sink" complaints from certain quarters :-).
-
-Support for Turbo C compilation has also been eliminated; it was present to
-allow checking in an ANSI-style environment, and such checking is now done with
-gcc.
-
 And the "dysize" function has disappeared; it was present to allow compilation
 of the "date" command on old BSD systems, and a version of "date" is now
 provided in the package.  The "date" command is not created when you "make all"