Renamed README to README.md for Markdown rendering on Github.

Remaining README file is just to make automake happy.

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-Abstract
-========
+Please look at README.md
 
-This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol.
-Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy
-to set up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to do.  On the
-client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the
-server with ssh.
-
-The idea of sshfs was taken from the SSHFS filesystem distributed with
-LUFS, which I found very useful.  There were some limitations of that
-codebase, so I rewrote it.  Features of this implementation are:
-
-  - Based on FUSE (the best userspace filesystem framework for Linux ;)
-
-  - Multithreading: more than one request can be on it's way to the
-    server
-
-  - Allowing large reads (max 64k)
-
-  - Caching directory contents
-
-  - Reconnect on failure
-
-Latest version
-==============
-
-The latest version and more information can be found on
-
-  http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html
-
-
-How to mount a filesystem
-=========================
-
-Once sshfs is installed (see next section) running it is very simple:
-
-  sshfs hostname: mountpoint
-
-Note, that it's recommended to run it as user, not as root.  For this
-to work the mountpoint must be owned by the user.  If the username is
-different on the host you are connecting to, then use the
-"username@host:" form.  If you need to enter a password sshfs will ask
-for it (actually it just runs ssh which ask for the password if
-needed).  You can also specify a directory after the ":".  The default
-is the home directory.
-
-Also many ssh options can be specified (see the manual pages for
-sftp(1) and ssh_config(5)), including the remote port number
-('-oport=PORT')
-
-To unmount the filesystem:
-
-  fusermount -u moutpoint
-
-
-Installing
-==========
-
-First you need to download FUSE 2.2 or later from:
-
-  http://fuse.sourceforge.net
-
-You also need to install the devel package for glib2.0.  After
-installing FUSE, compile sshfs the usual way:
-
-  ./configure
-  make
-  make install (as root)
-
-And you are ready to go.
-
-If checking out from CVS for the first time also do 'autoreconf -i'
-before doing './configure'.
+This file just exists to make automake happy.
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+Abstract
+========
+
+This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol.
+Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy
+to set up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to do.  On the
+client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the
+server with ssh.
+
+The idea of sshfs was taken from the SSHFS filesystem distributed with
+LUFS, which I found very useful.  There were some limitations of that
+codebase, so I rewrote it.  Features of this implementation are:
+
+  - Based on FUSE (the best userspace filesystem framework for Linux ;)
+
+  - Multithreading: more than one request can be on it's way to the
+    server
+
+  - Allowing large reads (max 64k)
+
+  - Caching directory contents
+
+  - Reconnect on failure
+
+Latest version
+==============
+
+The latest version and more information can be found on
+http://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
+
+
+How to mount a filesystem
+=========================
+
+Once sshfs is installed (see next section) running it is very simple:
+
+    sshfs hostname: mountpoint
+
+Note, that it's recommended to run it as user, not as root.  For this
+to work the mountpoint must be owned by the user.  If the username is
+different on the host you are connecting to, then use the
+"username@host:" form.  If you need to enter a password sshfs will ask
+for it (actually it just runs ssh which ask for the password if
+needed).  You can also specify a directory after the ":".  The default
+is the home directory.
+
+Also many ssh options can be specified (see the manual pages for
+sftp(1) and ssh_config(5)), including the remote port number
+(`-oport=PORT`)
+
+To unmount the filesystem:
+
+    fusermount -u moutpoint
+
+
+Installing
+==========
+
+First you need to download FUSE 2.2 or later from
+http://github.com/libfuse/libfuse.
+
+You also need to install the devel package for glib2.0.  After
+installing FUSE, compile sshfs the usual way:
+
+    ./configure
+    make
+    make install (as root)
+
+And you are ready to go.
+
+If checking out from git for the first time also do `autoreconf -i`
+before doing `./configure`.