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diff --git a/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml b/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml index e2d168386..3faab5899 100644 --- a/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml @@ -23,9 +23,8 @@ 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 a -file being read from its standard input. Then, that uncompressed data is -written to standard output.</para></sect4> +<para>zcat uncompresses, and writes to standard output, either a list of files +on the command line or a file being read from standard input.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>zcmp</title> <para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para></sect4> @@ -35,7 +34,7 @@ written to standard output.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>zforce</title> <para>zforce forces a .gz extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not -compress them twice. This can be useful for files with names truncated +compress them twice. This can be useful for files with names truncated after a file transfer.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>zgrep</title> @@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ after a file transfer.</para></sect4> <sect4><title>zmore</title> <para>zmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text -files one screen at a time on a soft-copy terminal (similar to the +files, one screen at a time on a soft-copy terminal (similar to the more program).</para></sect4> <sect4><title>znew</title> |