diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/ChangeLog b/Lib/idlelib/ChangeLog
index b853a34af39..e60e2f32968 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/ChangeLog
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+original IDLE ChangeLog:
+========================
+
 Tue Feb 15 18:08:19 2000  Guido van Rossum  <guido@cnri.reston.va.us>
 
 	* NEWS.txt: Notice status bar and stack viewer.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
index 3ab452ef842..3f3f95b6b3d 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
@@ -78,17 +78,25 @@ TK_TABWIDTH_DEFAULT = 8
 #$ unix <Control-x>
 
 
-about_title = "About IDLE"
+about_title = "About IDLEfork"
 about_text = """\
-IDLE %s
+IDLEfork %s
 
-An Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python
+IDLE is an Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python \
+by Guido van Rossum.
 
-by Guido van Rossum
+IDLEfork is an official experimental development version of IDLE.
+Succesful new features in IDLEfork will be mereged back in to stable IDLE.
 
-This version of IDLE has been modified by David Scherer
-  (dscherer@cmu.edu).  See readme.txt for details.
-""" % idlever.IDLE_VERSION
+This version of IDLEfork is based on the work in stable IDLE version %s, \
+IDLEfork 0.7.1 released by David Scherer, and the VPython idle fork. 
+
+See README.txt for more details on IDLEfork.
+
+WARNING: IDLEfork is at this stage alpha quality software, expect things \
+to be broken. 
+
+""" % (idlever.IDLEFORK_VERSION, idlever.IDLE_VERSION)
 
 class EditorWindow:
 
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/INSTALLATION b/Lib/idlelib/INSTALLATION
index 369395fbda8..c5ee4bed2f8 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/INSTALLATION
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/INSTALLATION
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+INSTALLATION from IDLE fork 0.7.1 :
+===================================
+
 IDLE Fork Installation on Linux:
 
 Until the tarball is released, you must download a CVS copy.  An excellent
@@ -35,4 +38,4 @@ itself).
 # exit    from root
 
 NOTE that the above procedure will install idlefork IDLE on top of any
-"official" IDLE that may be already installed.
\ No newline at end of file
+"official" IDLE that may be already installed.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 86cbc7609fd..5e6e37afae6 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+original IDLE NEWS.txt :
+========================
+
 (For a more detailed change log, see the file ChangeLog.)
 
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/README.txt b/Lib/idlelib/README.txt
index 1b065aec0fd..00fedf0d180 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/README.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/README.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+README from IDLE fork 0.7.1 :
+=============================
+
 EXPERIMENTAL LOADER IDLE 2000-05-29
 -----------------------------------
 
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/TODO.txt b/Lib/idlelib/TODO.txt
index b5ec7e81cb9..96b04502029 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/TODO.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/TODO.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-
+Original IDLE todo, much of it now outdated:
+============================================
 TO DO:
 
 - improve debugger:
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
index 82c5781d56f..077e3477b29 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 IDLE_VERSION = "0.8"
+IDLEFORK_VERSION = "0.8.1"