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+You are looking at the source for the TIFFS In Vitro Analyzer utility.  You may
+have downloaded it either as a separate package or as part of the larger
+freecalypso-sw suite.
+
+See TIFFS-Overview (in ../doc if you are working with the full freecalypso-sw
+source tree) for a general description of what TIFFS is and why it matters.
+
+The utility contained in the present package runs on a general purpose GNU/Linux
+(or other Unix) host and enables "in vitro" examination of Flash File System
+images read out of TI-based GSM devices.  Using this utility, you can list the
+directory and file content of an FFS image, cat any individual file in the FFS,
+or extract the complete FFS content into your regular Unix file system.  Some
+"forensic" operations are also supported: by listing the inode array, one can
+deduce the order in which the present FFS content got created, and see what
+files have been overwritten or deleted in the span of still-visible history.
+One can then cat the old byte content of those overwritten or deleted files,
+if those data chunks are still in the FFS image (i.e., if the flash sector in
+question has not been reclaimed yet).
+
+Compilation and installation are straightforward: run 'make' to compile the
+source; you should get 3 executable binaries named tiffs, mokoffs and pirffs;
+then run 'make install' as root to install them in /usr/local/bin.  The binary
+named tiffs is the main program; mokoffs and pirffs are wrappers that simplify
+the most common current use cases.
+
+To install somewhere other than /usr/local/bin, edit the INSTBIN= setting in
+the subdirectory Makefiles.  You will also need to edit
+tiffs-wrappers/installpath.c accordingly, as the mokoffs and pirffs wrappers
+are designed to exec tiffs by its absolute installed pathname.
+
+See Usage for the usage instructions.