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@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ feed parser. It's just an aggregator; it's not a weblog authoring tool, nor is
 it an NNTP gateway, outliner, mailserver or anything else.  rawdog probably
 only runs on Unix-like systems.
 
+rawdog requires Python 2.2 or later. rawdog itself doesn't need any
+additional modules to be installed, but it uses distutils for
+installation, so if you're on a Debian system you'll need to install the
+"python-dev" package first.
+
 rawdog reads articles from a number of feeds and writes out a single
 HTML file, based on a template either provided by the user or generated
 by rawdog, containing the latest articles it's seen. It uses the ETags
@@ -34,8 +39,6 @@ to perform -- for instance, "rawdog --update --write" tells it to do the
 "--update" action, then the "--write" action. The actions supported are
 as follows:
 
-"--help": Provide a brief summary of all the options rawdog supports.
-
 "--update" (or "-u"): Fetch data from the feeds and store it. This could
 take some time if you've got lots of feeds.
 
@@ -64,6 +67,17 @@ own template: do "rawdog -t >~/.rawdog/mytemplate" with "template
 default" in your config file, and you'll get a copy of the default
 template to edit.
 
+There are also the following options which may only be supplied once
+(they're read before any of the actions are performed):
+
+"--help": Provide a brief summary of all the options rawdog supports,
+and exit.
+
+"--dir DIR" (or "-d DIR"), where DIR is a directory: Use DIR instead of
+the $HOME/.rawdog directory. This is useful if you want to have two or
+more completely different rawdog setups with different sets of feeds;
+just create a directory for each.
+
 You will want to run "rawdog -uw" periodically to fetch data and write
 the output file. The easiest way to do this is to add a crontab entry
 that looks something like this: