diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
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-OpenSC Release 0.9.4
-====================
-
-We are pleased to announce the availability of OpenSC 0.9.4.
-
-OpenSC provides a set of libraries and utilities to access smart
-cards. Its main focus is on cards that support cryptographic operations,
-and facilitate their use in security applications such as mail encryption,
-authentication, and digital signature.
-
-OpenSC can be used with the following applications and libraries:
-
- -	Netscape Communicator and Mozilla (through its PKCS#11 module),
- 	for secure email (S/MIME) and SSL authentication
- -	OpenSSH, for user authentication
- -	FreeSWAN, StrongSWAN and OpenSWAN,
-        for authentication and key management
- -	OpenSSL, for key and certificate storage, key generation and
- 	signing of certificate requests
- -	GNUpg 1.9 (experimental), for key storage
- -	Smart card login, through a PAM module
- -	Using the included utilities, to perform RSA decryption and
- 	digital signing
-
-OpenSC is capable of personalizing various types of smart cards, but
-also works with personalized cards such as the Finnish FINEID.
-
-OpenSC can currently be used on Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It supports
-PC/SC, CT-API and OpenCT to talk to card terminals.
-
-
-
-Supported Hardware
-==================
-
-The following card operating systems are supported at the moment (where
-read-only means that personalized cards can be used, but OpenSC does not
-provide personalization support for these).
-
- -	CardOS/M4 (Aladdin eToken PRO, etc)
- -	Schlumberger/Axalto Cryptoflex and Cyberflex
- -	IBM JCOP
- -	Starcos SPK
- -	Oberthur AuthentIC v5
- -	Estonian ID card (read-only)
- -	MioCOS (read-only)
- -	Setcos (read-only)
- -	TCOS (read-only)
-
-
-
-
-Download
-========
-Source code is available from http://www.opensc.org/
-
-A binary package for Windows is available as well.
-
-
-
-Mailing List
-============
-
-There is a mailing list (opensc-devel) for users and developers of
-OpenSC. For subscription instructions, please visit http://www.opensc.org.
-
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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-See docs/opensc.html for more info.
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
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 SUBDIRS = . aclocal etc macos man src win32
 DIST_SUBDIRS = . aclocal doc etc macos man src win32
 
-EXTRA_DIST = ANNOUNCE CodingStyle QUICKSTART README \
+EXTRA_DIST = CodingStyle QUICKSTART \
 	bootstrap Makefile.mak depcomp \
 	solaris/Makefile solaris/README solaris/checkinstall.in \
 	solaris/opensc.conf-dist solaris/pkginfo.in solaris/proto
diff --git a/README b/README
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-See docs/opensc.html for more info.