Disabled installation of cron, crontab by default. Fixed up all information files to reflect this.0.99.1

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+                                                  -*-text-*-
+
 This is version 0.99.1 of the mcron program, designed and written by Dale
 Mellor, which replaces and hugely enhances Vixie cron. It is functionally
 complete, production quality code (did you expect less?), but has not received
 much testing yet and contains known bugs. It has only been built on a GNU/Linux
 system, and will most likely fail on others (but you never know...).
 
+Mcron is supposed to be 100% Vixie compatible. However, in the current release
+this is broken, and by default only 50% compatibility is installed.
+
 
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 IMPORTANT NOTICES
 
 Read the BUGS file.
 
-Do not (yet) install this software on a machine which relies for its functioning
-on its current set of crontabs.
-
-The package must be installed by root.
-
-Before installing this package for the first time, it is necessary to terminate
-any running cron daemons on your system. If your old cron is not accurately
-Vixie compatible (files in /var/cron/tabs*, /var/cron/allow, /var/cron/deny,
-/etc/crontab, /var/run/cron.pid) then you will need to clear out all old
-crontabs and make new ones afresh.
-
-If your old cron is Vixie, or very similar, mcron should fall right into place
-where your old cron was (the binaries cron and crontab will be replaced), and
-you should be able to continue to use your existing crontabs without noticing
-any changes. Bear in mind that if you use /etc/crontab, then changes to this
-file will *not* take immediate effect (this is the 1% incompatibility between
-mcron and Vixie cron); you may want to add a comment to this file with a note to
-this effect. Alternatively, use the new mcron program, it's better!
-
-If you don't want to clobber your existing cron executables, you can specify the
---program-prefix option to configure with a prefix ending in a non-alphabetic
-character, for example "m.", and then run the programs as m.mcron, m.cron and
-m.crontab.
+By default, the cron and crontab programs are not installed, and mcron will
+happiliy coexist alongside any existing cron programs you have on your
+system. The Vixie-style programs can be installed by specifying --enable-vixie
+to the configure command, in which case you must take heed of the following
+notes.
+
+
+    Do not (yet) install this software on a machine which relies for its
+    functioning on its current set of crontabs.
+
+    The package must be installed by root.
+
+    Before installing this package for the first time, it is necessary to
+    terminate any running cron daemons on your system. If your old cron is not
+    accurately Vixie compatible (files in /var/cron/tabs*, /var/cron/allow,
+    /var/cron/deny, /etc/crontab, /var/run/cron.pid) then you will need to clear
+    out all old crontabs and make new ones afresh.
+
+    If your old cron is Vixie, or very similar, mcron should fall right into
+    place where your old cron was (the binaries cron and crontab will be
+    replaced), and you should be able to continue to use your existing crontabs
+    without noticing any changes. Bear in mind that if you use /etc/crontab,
+    then changes to this file will *not* take immediate effect (this is the 1%
+    incompatibility between mcron and Vixie cron); you may want to add a comment
+    to this file with a note to this effect. Alternatively, use the new mcron
+    program, it's better!
+
+    If you don't want to clobber your existing cron executables, you can specify
+    the --program-prefix option to configure with a prefix ending in a
+    non-alphabetic character, for example "m.", and then run the programs as
+    m.mcron, m.cron and m.crontab.
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