Applied Bill's chapter 5 fixes patch.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2133 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

6 files changed, 19 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/appendixa/fileutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/fileutils-desc.xml
index 1d94d9224..f25533d1a 100644
--- a/appendixa/fileutils-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/fileutils-desc.xml
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ their owner and group.</para></sect4>
 <para>mkfifo creates a FIFO with each given name.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>mknod</title>
-<para>mknod creates a FIFO, character special file, or block special file 
+<para>mknod creates a FIFO, character special file or block special file 
 with the given file name.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>mv</title>
diff --git a/appendixa/findutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/findutils-desc.xml
index 6152a3ce7..c65d63def 100644
--- a/appendixa/findutils-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/findutils-desc.xml
@@ -28,26 +28,26 @@ 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 contain all files and directories on a
+<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-fairly up-to-date else it will provide out-of-date information.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>
+fairly up-to-date, else it will provide out-of-date information.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 system that are currently mounted
+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
+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 file can be created 
-that contains all these files (one per line) and use xargs to perform that
-command on the list.</para></sect4>
+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>
 
 </sect3>
 
diff --git a/appendixa/gawk-desc.xml b/appendixa/gawk-desc.xml
index 31b105314..5eb82948e 100644
--- a/appendixa/gawk-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/gawk-desc.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pwcat</para></sect3>
 <para>awk is a symbolic link to gawk.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>gawk, gawk-3.1.1</title>
-<para>gawk is the GNU implementation of the AWK,
+<para>gawk is the GNU implementation of awk,
 a pattern scanning and processing language.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>grcat</title>
diff --git a/appendixa/gcc-desc.xml b/appendixa/gcc-desc.xml
index 04a59e522..f2408b4de 100644
--- a/appendixa/gcc-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/gcc-desc.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ file is compiled into an object file, a linker will create an executable
 file from one or more of these compiler generated object files.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>c++, cc1plus, g++</title>
-<para>These are the C++ compiler; the equivalent of cc and 
+<para>These are the C++ compiler, the equivalent of cc and 
 gcc etc.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>c++filt</title>
@@ -31,12 +31,10 @@ from clashing.</para></sect4>
 <para>collect2 assists with the compilation of constructors.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>cpp, cpp0</title>
-<para>cpp pre-processes a source file, such as including
-the contents of header files into the source file. It's a good idea to
-not do this manually to save a lot of time. Someone just inserts a line
-like #include &lt;filename&gt;. The preprocessor inserts the
-contents of that file into the source file. That's one of the things a
-preprocessor does.</para></sect4>
+<para>cpp pre-processes a source file, such as including the contents of
+header files into the source file. Simply add a line, such as #include
+&lt;filename&gt;, to your source file. The preprocessor will insert the
+contents of the included file into the source file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>gccbug</title>
 <para>gccbug is a shell script which is used to simplify the creation of
diff --git a/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml b/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml
index 3510b95f4..e2d168386 100644
--- a/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ performance).</para></sect4>
 Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>zcat</title>
-<para>zcat uncompresses either a list of files on the command line or its 
-standard input and writes the uncompressed data on 
-standard output.</para></sect4>
+<para>zcat uncompresses either a list of files on the command line or a
+file being read from its standard input. Then, that uncompressed data is
+written to standard output.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>zcmp</title>
 <para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
diff --git a/appendixa/texinfo-desc.xml b/appendixa/texinfo-desc.xml
index 9a3679ddc..76ae79f04 100644
--- a/appendixa/texinfo-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/texinfo-desc.xml
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ a binary format.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>install-info</title>
 <para>The install-info program updates the info entries. When the info
-program is run a list with available topics (ie: available info documents) will
-be presented. The install-info program is used to maintain this list of
+program is run, a list with available topics (ie: available info documents)
+will be presented. The install-info program is used to maintain this list of
 available topics. If info files are removed manually, it is also necessary
 to delete the topic in the index file as well. This program is used for
 that. It also works the other way around when info documents are