From 978d0bffc413b67ead9db2d2816b916cf3d502ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:29:16 +0000
Subject: Changing the style of the command descriptions in appendix A.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2879 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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 appendixa/gzip-desc.xml | 49 +++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

(limited to 'appendixa/gzip-desc.xml')

diff --git a/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml b/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml
index 4641e769e..e5f48fb6e 100644
--- a/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml
@@ -6,46 +6,35 @@
 
 <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
 
-<sect4><title>gunzip, uncompress</title>
-<para>gunzip and uncompress decompress files which are compressed with 
-gzip.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>gunzip</command> decompresses gzipped files.</para>
 
-<sect4><title>gzexe</title>
-<para>gzexe allows you to compress executables in place and have them 
-automatically uncompress and execute when they are run (at a penalty in 
-performance).</para></sect4>
+<para><command>gzexe</command> is used to create self-uncompressing
+executable files.</para>
 
-<sect4><title>gzip</title>
-<para>gzip reduces the size of the named files using 
-Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).</para></sect4>
+<para><command>gzip</command> compresses the given files, using
+Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) coding.</para>
 
-<sect4><title>zcat</title>
-<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>
+<para><command>zcat</command> uncompresses the given gzipped files to
+standard output.</para>
 
-<sect4><title>zcmp</title>
-<para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>zcmp</command> runs cmp on gzipped files.</para>
 
-<sect4><title>zdiff</title>
-<para>zdiff invokes the diff program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>zdiff</command> runs diff on gzipped files.</para>
 
-<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 
-after a file transfer.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>zforce</command> forces a .gz extension on all given files
+that are gzipped files, so that gzip will not compress them again. This can be
+useful when file names were truncated during a file transfer.</para>
 
-<sect4><title>zgrep</title>
-<para>zgrep invokes the grep program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>zgrep</command> runs grep on gzipped files.</para>
 
-<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
-more program).</para></sect4>
+<para><command>zless</command> runs less on gzipped files.</para>
 
-<sect4><title>znew</title>
-<para>znew re-compresses files from .Z (compress) format to 
-.gz (gzip) format.</para></sect4>
+<para><command>zmore</command> runs more on gzipped files.</para>
+
+<para><command>znew</command> recompresses files from compress format
+to gzip format -- .Z to .gz.</para>
 
 </sect3>
 
 </sect2>
+
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