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.</para>
 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.)</para></listitem>
+(bug 1549.) Fixed tar description (bug 1553.)</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>June 19th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Changed listing of IRC servers to show
 only irc.linuxfromscratch.org.</para></listitem>
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</seg></seglistitem>
 <sect2 role="installation">
 <title>Installation of Tar</title>
 
-<para>Tar has a bug when the <parameter>-S</parameter> option is used 
+<para>Tar has a bug when the <parameter>-S</parameter> option is used
 with files larger than 4 GB. The following patch properly fixes this issue:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../tar-&tar-version;-sparse_fix-1.patch</userinput></screen>
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ tape drive through an interprocess communication connection</para>
 <varlistentry id="tar">
 <term><command>tar</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>Creates and extracts files from archives, also known as tarballs</para>
+<para>Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives,
+also known as tarballs</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar tar"><primary sortas="b-tar">tar</primary></indexterm>
 </listitem>
 </varlistentry>