The usual changes when a release is nearing...

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diff --git a/README b/README
index 5e81b92bf3..67e1880987 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
-Python release 1.1.1
-====================
+Python release 1.2
+==================
 
-==> This is Python version 1.1.1.
-
-==> Python 1.1.1 is a pure bugfix release.  It fixes two core dumps
-    related to the changed implementation of (new)getargs, some
-    portability bugs, and some very minor things here and there.  If
-    you have 1.1, you only need to install 1.1 if bugs in it are
-    bugging you.
+==> This version provides new functionality as well as bug fixes.
+    Everyone should upgrade.  For a description of what's changed, see
+    Misc/NEWS.
 
 ==> If you don't know yet what Python is: it's an interpreted,
     extensible, embeddable, interactive, object-oriented programming
@@ -130,6 +126,20 @@ IRIX 5) you need to call the configure script with the option
 found.  (On some other systems, e.g. IRIX 5, these libraries exist but
 are incompatible with other system libraries such as X11 and GL.)
 
+- On SCO, a number of notes apply:
+
+	1) Everything works much better if you add -U__STDC__ to the
+	defs.  This is because all the SCO header files are broken.
+	Anything that isn't mentioned in the C standard it's
+	conditionally excluded when __STDC__ is defined.
+
+	2) Due to the U.S. export restrictions, SCO broke the crypt
+	stuff out into a separate library, libcrypt_i.a so the LIBS
+	needed be set to:
+
+		LIBS=' -lsocket -lcrypt_i'
+
+
 - If you want to install the binaries and the Python library somewhere
 else than in /usr/local/{bin,lib}, you can pass the option
 --prefix=DIRECTORY; the interpreter binary will be installed as