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@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ works no matter how your host system decided to patch tar.</para>
<para>If a file is just tar'ed, it is unpacked by running:</para>
-<para><screen><userinput>tar xvf filename.tar</userinput></screen></para>
+<para><screen><userinput>tar -xvf filename.tar</userinput></screen></para>
<para>When an archive is unpacked, a new directory will be created under the
current directory (and this book assumes that the archives are unpacked
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ archive and cd into the newly created directory.</para>
<para>From time to time you will be dealing with single files such as patch
files. These files are generally gzip'ed or bzip2'ed. Before such files
-can be used they need to be uncompressed first.</para>
+can be used they need to be uncompressed.</para>
<para>If a file is gzip'ed, it is unpacked by running:</para>
@@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ can be used they need to be uncompressed first.</para>
it: either the directory that contains the sources can be deleted, or it
can be kept. We highly recommend deleting it. If you don't do this and
try to re-use the same source later on in the book (for example re-using
-the source trees from Chapter 5 for use in Chapter 6), it may not work
+the source trees from Chapter 5 in Chapter 6), it may not work
as you expect it to. Source trees from Chapter 5 will have your host
distribution's settings, which don't always apply to the LFS system
-after you enter the chroot'ed environment. Even running something like
+after you enter the chroot environment. Even running something like
<emphasis>make clean</emphasis> doesn't always guarantee a clean source
tree.</para>
@@ -75,10 +75,10 @@ immediately after you have installed it, but keep the downloaded tarball
available for when you need it again.</para>
<para>There is one exception; the kernel source tree. Keep it around as you
-will need it later in this book when building a kernel. Nothing will use
-the kernel tree so the source tree won't be in your way. If, however,
-you are short of disk space, you can remove the kernel tree and re-untar
-it later when required.</para>
+will need it later in this book when building a kernel. Nothing before then
+will use the kernel tree, so the source tree won't be in your way. If,
+however, you are short of disk space, you can remove the kernel tree and
+re-untar it later when required.</para>
</sect1>