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<sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
-<sect4><title>lsdev</title>
-<para>lsdev gathers information about your computer's installed hardware from
-the interrupts, ioports and dma files in the /proc directory, thus giving
-you a quick overview of which hardware uses what I/O addresses and what
-IRQ and DMA channels.</para></sect4>
-
-<sect4><title>procinfo</title>
-<para>procinfo gathers some system data from the /proc directory
-and prints it nicely formatted on the standard output
-device.</para></sect4>
-
-<sect4><title>socklist</title>
-<para>is a Perl script that gives you a list of all open sockets, enumerating
-types, port, inode, uid, pid, fd and the program to which it
-belongs.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>lsdev</command> lists the devices present in your system,
+and which IRQs and IO ports they use.</para>
+
+<para><command>procinfo</command> displays an overview of some of the info
+present in the virtual proc filesystem.</para>
+
+<para><command>socklist</command> lists the open sockets, reporting their
+type, portnumber, and other specifics.</para>
</sect3>