Changing the style of the command descriptions in appendix A.

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 <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
 
-<sect4><title>bigram</title>
-<para>bigram is used together with code to produce older-style locate 
-databases. To learn more about these last three programs, read the locatedb.5 
-manual page.</para></sect4>
-
-<sect4><title>code</title>
-<para>code is the ancestor of frcode. It was used in older-style locate 
-databases.</para></sect4>
-
-<sect4><title>find</title>
-<para>The find program searches for files in a directory hierarchy which match
-a certain criteria. If no criteria is given, it lists all files in the
-current directory and its subdirectories.</para></sect4>
-
-<sect4><title>frcode</title>
-<para>frcode is called by updatedb to compress the list of file names
-using front-compression, which reduces the database size by a factor of
-4 to 5.</para></sect4>
-
-<sect4><title>locate</title>
-<para>locate scans a database which contains all files and directories on a
-filesystem. This program lists the files and directories in this
-database matching a certain criteria. If a user is looking for a file this
-program will scan the database and tell him exactly where the files he
-requested are located. This only makes sense if the locate database is
-fairly up-to-date, else it will provide out-of-date information.</para></sect4>
-
-<sect4><title>updatedb</title>
-<para>The updatedb program updates the locate database. It scans the entire
-file system (including other file systems that are currently mounted
-unless it is told not to do so) and puts every directory and file it finds
-into the database that's used by the locate program, which retrieves this
-information. It's good practice to update this database once a day to
-have it up-to-date whenever it is needed.</para></sect4>
-
-<sect4><title>xargs</title>
-<para>The xargs command applies a command to a list of files. If there is 
-a need to perform the same command on multiple files, a list can be created 
-that names all those files (one per line) and xargs can perform that
-command on those files.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>bigram</command> was formerly used to produce locate
+databases.</para>
+
+<para><command>code</command> was formerly used to produce locate
+databases. It is is the ancestor of frcode.</para>
+
+<para><command>find</command> searches given directory trees for files
+matching the specified criteria.</para>
+
+<para><command>frcode</command> is called by updatedb to compress the
+list of file names. It uses front-compression, reducing the database size by a
+factor of 4 to 5.</para>
+
+<para><command>locate</command> searches through a database of file names,
+and reports the names that contain a given string or match a given pattern.</para>
+
+<para><command>updatedb</command> updates the locate database. It scans
+the entire filesystem (including other filesystems that are currently mounted,
+unless told not to) and puts every file name it finds in the database.</para>
+
+<para><command>xargs</command> can be used to apply a given command to
+a list of files.</para>
 
 </sect3>