With all the new excitement generated by the renewed development, new players are and will be coming into the game. If someone wants to introduce a friend to the game with a copy of p5 instead of a copy of 1.1.1 or earlier, the p5 package does not include manual.doc, readme.1st and adomfaq.txt. That someone then has to dig up a copy of p1 or p2 or an earlier version or look for those documents online to share with the new player.

The suggestion is then to package those three files with the p5 zipfiles for the various platforms, even if manual.doc and readme.1st are not yet up to date with the versions of those documents accessible in-game. These three little files offer very valuable information to players totally new to the game about the game itself, bug reporting, and other etceteras. If the files are not yet up to date this can just be mentioned briefly at the beginning of the files advising the player to check the in-game versions for new, specifically 1.2.0 related information, and the files can be updated at a later point. The main advantage of having a version of these documents accessible outside the game itself is that they are text searchable and easier to scroll through and skim.

Concurrently, it'd be a good idea to link to the online versions of the manual, the readme and the adom FAQ on ancardia.com:

HTML manual: http://adomgb.sweb.cz/adomman-toc.html / mirrored at http://www.natrox.org/adom/improved/adomman-toc.html / downloadable version at http://ancardia.us.to/bi/manual.zip (1.1.1 version)
Downloadable .doc manual: http://ancardia.us.to/bi/manual_doc.zip (version packaged with p1)
ADOM FAQ: html version at http://adomgb.info/adomfaq.html and ascii version at http://adomgb.info/adomfaq.txt
Readme: http://ancardia.us.to/bi/readme.1st (version packaged with p1)