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diff --git a/chapter06/file-inst.xml b/chapter06/file-inst.xml index 0a084a542..f300117e4 100644 --- a/chapter06/file-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/file-inst.xml @@ -1,22 +1,16 @@ <sect2> <title>Installation of File</title> -<para> -Install File by running the following commands: -</para> +<para>Install File by running the following commands:</para> -<para> -<screen> -<userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share/misc &&</userinput> +<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share/misc &&</userinput> <userinput>make &&</userinput> -<userinput>make install</userinput> -</screen> -</para> +<userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para> -<para> -File uses magic numbers to determine a file type. These magic numbers come with -File in a plain text file. File internally compiles this database each time it -is run. This is not the normal type of operation for File since compiling a +<para>File uses magic numbers to determine a file type. These magic numbers +come with File in a plain text file. File internally compiles this database +each time it is run. This is not the normal type of operation for File since +compiling a plain text file each time is not the fastest way to do it. File offers an option "-C" to compile this magic number file. The reason this isn't done automatically is that some people like to work on the magic numbers. On the @@ -24,14 +18,9 @@ other hand many people didn't get it that they should compile the magic numbers, so the author of File added a warning when the plain text magic file is used. As we usually won't work on the plain text magic file, we compile this file, because it's faster, fixes that annoying warning and is how -it was meant to be: -</para> +it was meant to be:</para> -<para> -<screen> -<userinput>file -C</userinput> -</screen> -</para> +<para><screen><userinput>file -C</userinput></screen></para> </sect2> |