960d3d70412929355d07fd5bf8f6309bf187a0e4
hiram
  Tue Jul 2 17:58:24 2013 -0700
add note about pre-compiled binaries refs #9149
diff --git src/userApps/README src/userApps/README
index 5731a93..b9e7d86 100644
--- src/userApps/README
+++ src/userApps/README
@@ -1,25 +1,39 @@
 ========================================================================
 
 UCSC genome browser 'kent' bioinformatic utilities
 
   These are only the command line bioinformatic utilities
   from the kent source tree.  This is not the genome browser install.
   For the genome browser install, use the instructions from the source tree:
     http://genome-source.cse.ucsc.edu/gitweb/?p=kent.git;a=tree;f=src/product
 
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+Pre-compiled binaries available:
+
+These binaries built at UCSC may already work in your linux/Mac
+environment.  Please access via:
+  http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/
+  http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/macOSX.x86_64/
+  http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/macOSX.i386/
+
+Or via FTP:
+  ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/
+  ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/macOSX.x86_64/
+  ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/macOSX.i386/
+
+========================================================================
 
 System Requirements:
 
 Linux/Ubuntu/CentOS/Unix/MacOSX operating system
 gnu gcc - C code development system - http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/
 gnu make - http://www.gnu.org/software/make/
 MySQL development system and libraries - http://dev.mysql.com/
 libpng runtime and development packages - http://www.libpng.org/
 libssl runtime and development packages - http://www.openssl.org/
 
 Optional:
 'git' source code management: http://git-scm.com/downloads
 
 It is best to install these packages with your standard operating
 system package management tools.