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@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT SNAPSHOTS:
 The Guile snapshots are available via anonymous FTP from
 alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu, as /gnu/guile-snap.tar.gz.
 
+Via the web, it's:  ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/guile-snap.tar.gz
+For getit, that's:  alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/gnu/guile-snap.tar.gz
+
 Guile is a portable, embeddable Scheme implementation written in C.
 Guile provides a machine independent execution platform that can be
 linked in as a library when building extensible programs.