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 @chapter A Whirlwind Tour
 
 This chapter presents a quick tour of all the ways that Guile can be
-used.
+used.  There are additional examples in the @file{examples/}
+directory in the Guile source distribution.
 
 @menu
 * Running Guile Interactively::