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diff --git a/pctb/README b/pctb/README
index 9bb9867..49f2c28 100644
--- a/pctb/README
+++ b/pctb/README
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Overview
 This tool can:
   - screenscrape the commodities trading screen
   - produce the results as a tab separated values file
-  - **TODO** upload the results to PCTB
+  - upload the results to PCTB
 
 To run it, change to this directory, type `make', and then:
   ./ypp-commodities --tsv >commods.tsv
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ To run it, change to this directory, type `make', and then:
 While it is capturing the screenshots, do not move the mouse or use
 the keyboard.  Keyboard focus must stay in the YPP client window.
 
+You will probably need to turn off `Use antialiased font' in the YPP
+client.  This is in the Ye panel, Options, tab `General'.
 
 Command-line options
 --------------------
@@ -73,17 +75,42 @@ The program reads and writes the following files:
    it.  Don't try `display vid:#pages#.pnm' as this will consume
    truly stupendous quantities of RAM - it wedged my laptop.
 
- * charset-15.txt
+ * #master-newcommods#.txt #local-newcommods#.txt
 
-   Character set dictionary.  For the semantics of the contents of this
-   file see README.charset.  There is not currently any accurate
+   Dictionary of newly introduced commodities.  When a new commodity
+   appears in Puzzle Pirates, the PCTB server operators need to add it
+   to their database for us to be able to upload data about it.
+
+   It can sometimes take a few days to do this.  In the meantime, it
+   is possible to upload partial data - data just omitting that
+   commodity.  This is controlled by these files: they list
+   commodities which should be automatically ignored if the PCTB
+   server doesn't know about them.  The master file is downloaded and
+   updated automatically from my server.  You may create the local
+   file yourself.  The format is simple: one commodity per line.
+
+   Unrecognised commodities can also be due to OCR failure so
+   double-check what you're doing before overriding the uploader by
+   telling it to ignore an unrecognised commodity.
+
+ * #master-char*#.txt  #local-char*#.txt
+   #master-pixmap#.txt #local-pixmap#.txt
+
+   Character set and image dictionaries.  For the semantics of the
+   char* files README.charset.  There is not currently any accurate
    documentation of this dictionary format.
 
-   If you delete this file you'll have to re-enter a lot of glyph data
-   (and probably get it wrong and make the program misrecognise
-   things).  If you want to undo any mistakes you may have made
-   answering OCR questions you can safely revert this to the version
-   I've supplied.
+   #master-*#.txt contain the centrally defined and approved data.
+   They are downloaded automatically from the SC PCTB server and
+   updated each run.  You can safely delete this file, if everything
+   is online, if you want to fetch a fresh copy.
+
+   #local-*#.txt are a local copy of your submissions, so that they
+   will be used by your client pending approval by me.  You can delete
+   this file if you think you may have made a mistake.
+
+   See README.privacy for details of the communications with the SC
+   server about the contents of these dictionaries.
 
  * #commodmap#.tsv
 
@@ -91,6 +118,12 @@ The program reads and writes the following files:
    server.  This is fetched and updated automatically as necessary.
    It can safely be deleted as it will then be refetched.
 
+ * #upload-1#.html #upload-2#.html
+
+   We screenscrape the pages from the PCTB upload server.  The actual
+   HTML returned from the upload server is left in these dropping
+   files for debugging etc.
+
  * <file>.new
 
    When any of these tools overwrite one of the persistent dictionary
@@ -116,6 +149,7 @@ This program has quite a few dependencies:
  - pnm command line utilities for image manipulation	netpbm
  - X11 libraries, including dev files for building	libx11-dev
  - XTEST library, including dev files for building	libxtst-dev
+ - Perl-compatible regexp library, including dev files  libpcre3-dev
  - Tk interpreter /usr/bin/wish				tk8.4
  - Perl module XML::Parser				libxml-parser-perl
  - Perl module JSON::Parser				libjson-perl