diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 35a4b422c..418c3edcc 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.
headers and Linux-Libc-Headers, plus fixed the list of installed files
on kernel.xml (bug 1569). Some typos and tags fixes ported from trunk
(r6048 to r6050 and r6053 to r6056.) Fixed top program description
-(bug 1549.)
+(bug 1549.) Fixed tar description (bug 1553.)
June 19th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Changed listing of IRC servers to show
only irc.linuxfromscratch.org.
diff --git a/chapter06/tar.xml b/chapter06/tar.xml
index 932ad7acb..8ae7a0195 100644
--- a/chapter06/tar.xml
+++ b/chapter06/tar.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed
Installation of Tar
-Tar has a bug when the -S option is used
+Tar has a bug when the -S option is used
with files larger than 4 GB. The following patch properly fixes this issue:
patch -Np1 -i ../tar-&tar-version;-sparse_fix-1.patch
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ tape drive through an interprocess communication connection
tar
-Creates and extracts files from archives, also known as tarballs
+Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives,
+also known as tarballs
tar