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appendixa/autoconf-desc.xml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ ifnames</para></sect3>
 <sect4><title>autoconf</title>
 <para>autoconf is a tool for producing shell scripts that automatically
 configure software source code packages to adapt to many kinds of
-Unix-like systems.  The configuration scripts produced by autoconf are
+Unix-like systems. The configuration scripts produced by autoconf are
 independent of autoconf when they are run, so their users do not need to
 have autoconf.</para></sect4>
 
@@ -24,18 +24,18 @@ statements for configure to use.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>autoreconf</title>
 <para>If there are a lot of autoconf-generated configure scripts, the
-autoreconf program can save some work.  It runs autoconf (and
+autoreconf program can save some work. It runs autoconf and
-autoheader, where appropriate) repeatedly to remake the autoconf
+autoheader (where appropriate) repeatedly to remake the autoconf
 configure scripts and configuration header templates in the directory
 tree rooted at the current directory.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>autoscan</title>
 <para>The autoscan program can help to create a configure.in file for
-a software package. autoscan examines source files in the directory
+a software package. autoscan examines the source files in a directory
-tree rooted at a directory given as a command line argument, or the
+tree. If a directory is not specified on the command line, then the
-current directory if none is given.  It searches the source files for
+current working directory is used. The source files are searched for
-common portability problems and creates a file configure.scan which
+common portability problems and a configure.scan file is created to
-is a preliminary configure.in for that package.</para></sect4>
+serve as the preliminary configure.in for that package.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>autoupdate</title>
 <para>The autoupdate program updates a configure.in file that calls
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ macro names.</para></sect4>
 <para>ifnames can help when writing a configure.in for a software
 package. It prints the identifiers that the package already uses in C
 preprocessor conditionals. If a package has already been set up to
-have some portability, this program can help to figure out what its
+have some portability, this program can help to determine what configure
-configure needs to check for. It may help fill in some gaps in a
+needs to check. It may fill in some gaps in a configure.in file generated
-configure.in generated by autoscan.</para></sect4>
+by autoscan.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>
 

appendixa/automake-desc.xml

@@ -14,19 +14,19 @@ mdate-sh, missing, mkinstalldirs, py-compile, ylwrap</para></sect3>
 
 <sect4><title>aclocal, aclocal-1.6</title>
 <para>automake includes a number of autoconf macros which can be used in
-packages; some of them are actually required by automake in certain
+packages, some of which are needed by automake in certain
-situations. These macros must be defined in the aclocal.m4-file;
+situations. These macros must be defined in the aclocal.m4-file
-otherwise they will not be seen by autoconf.</para>
+or they will not be seen by autoconf.</para>
 
 <para>The aclocal program will automatically generate aclocal.m4 files
-based on the contents of configure.in.  This provides a convenient
+based on the contents of configure.in. This provides a convenient
-way to get automake-provided macros, without having to search around.
+way to get automake-provided macros without having to search around.
 Also, the aclocal mechanism is extensible for use 
 by other packages.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>automake, automake-1.6</title>
 <para>To create all the Makefile.in's for a package, run the automake
-program in the top level directory, with no arguments.  automake will
+program in the top level directory, with no arguments. automake will
 automatically find each appropriate Makefile.am (by scanning
 configure.in) and generate the corresponding Makefile.in.</para></sect4>
 

appendixa/bash-desc.xml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ program.</para></sect4>
 reports concerning bash in a standard format.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>sh</title>
-<para>sh is a symlink to the bash program.  When invoked as sh, bash 
+<para>sh is a symlink to the bash program. When invoked as sh, bash 
 tries to mimic the startup behavior of historical versions of sh as closely 
 as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as
 well.</para></sect4>

appendixa/bin86-desc.xml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ into a C file prog.v to be included in or linked with programs like boot
 block installers.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>ld86</title>
-<para>ld86 understands only the object files produced by the as86 assembler, it 
+<para>ld86 understands only the object files produced by the as86 assembler. It 
 can link them into either an impure or a 
 separate I&amp;D executable.</para></sect4>
 

appendixa/binutils-desc.xml

@@ -11,14 +11,14 @@ ranlib, readelf, size, strings and strip</para></sect3>
 
 <sect4><title>addr2line</title>
 <para>addr2line translates program addresses into file names and line numbers. 
-Given an address and an executable, it uses the  debugging information in 
+Given an address and an executable, it uses the debugging information in 
 the executable to figure out which file name and line number are associated 
 with a given address.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>ar</title>
 <para>The ar program creates, modifies, and extracts from archives. An archive 
 is a single file holding a collection of other files in a structure that makes 
-it  possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of 
+it possible to retrieve the original individual files (called members of 
 the archive).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>as</title>
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ the archive).</para></sect4>
 <para>gprof displays call graph profile data.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>ld</title>
-<para>ld combines a number of object and archive files,  relocates  their data 
+<para>ld combines a number of object and archive files, relocates their data 
 and ties up symbol references. Often the last step in building a new compiled 
 program to run is a call to ld.</para></sect4>
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ programmers who just want their program to compile and work.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>ranlib</title>
 <para>ranlib generates an index to the contents of an archive, and stores it in 
-the archive.  The index lists each symbol defined by a member of an archive 
+the archive. The index lists each symbol defined by an archive member
 that is a relocatable object file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>readelf</title>
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ object files in its argument list. By default, one line of output is
 generated for each object file or each module in an archive.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>strings</title>
-<para>For each  file  given, strings prints the printable character sequences 
+<para>For each file given, strings prints the printable character sequences 
-that are at least  4  characters  long (or the number specified with an
+that are at least 4 characters long (or the number specified with an
 option to the program) and are followed by an unprintable character. By 
 default, it only prints the strings from the initialized and loaded 
 sections of object files. For other types of files, it prints the strings 
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ modified copies under different names.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>libopcodes</title>
 <para>libopcodes is a native library for dealing with opcodes and is
-used in the course of building utilities such as objdump.  Opcodes are
+used in the course of building utilities such as objdump. Opcodes are
 actually "readable text" versions of instructions for the 
 processor.</para></sect4>
 

appendixa/bison-desc.xml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Another Compiler Compiler. What is bison then? It is a program that
 generates a program that analyzes the structure of a text file. Instead of
 writing the actual program a user specifies how things should be connected
 and with those rules a program is constructed that analyzes the 
-text file.  There are a lot of examples where structure is needed and 
+text file. There are a lot of examples where structure is needed and 
 one of them is the calculator.</para>
 
 <para>Given the string :</para>
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ to the compiler:</para>
 multiplies 2 and 3. The result of that multiplication is remembered and
 the next thing that the computer sees is the result of 2*3 and the
 number 1 which are joined by the add symbol. Adding 1 to the previous
-result makes 7. In calculating the most complex calculations can be
+result makes 7. In calculating, the most complex calculations can be
 broken down in this tree format and the computer just starts at the
 bottom and works its way up to the top and comes with the correct
 answer. Of course, bison isn't only used for calculators

appendixa/bzip2-desc.xml

@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ bzip2 compressed files.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>bzip2</title>
 <para>bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text 
-compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally 
+compression algorithm and Huffman coding. Compression is generally 
-considerably  better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based 
+considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based 
-compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical 
+compressors and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical 
 compressors.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>bzip2recover</title>
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ compressors.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>bzless</title>
 <para>bzless is a filter which allows examination of compressed
-or plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy
+or plain text files, one screenful at a time on a soft-copy
 terminal, like less.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>bzmore</title>
 <para>bzmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed
-or plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy
+or plain text files, one screenful at a time on a soft-copy
 terminal, like more.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ libbz2.so.1.0.2) and libbz2.so.1.0.2</para>
 
 <sect4><title>libbz2</title>
 <para>libbz2 is the library for implementing lossless, block-sorting data
-compression using the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm.</para></sect4>
+compression, using the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>
 

appendixa/e2fsprogs-desc.xml

@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ partition).</para></sect4>
 system.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>compile_et</title>
-<para>compile_et is used to convert a table listing error-code names
+<para>compile_et is used to convert a table, listing error-code names
-and associated messages into a C source file suitable for use with the 
+and associated messages, into a C source file that is suitable for use
-com_err library.</para></sect4>
+with the com_err library.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>debugfs</title>
-<para>The debugfs program is a file system debugger. It can be used  to examine 
+<para>The debugfs program is a file system debugger. It can be used to examine 
 and change the state of an ext2 file system.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>dumpe2fs</title>
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ and change the state of an ext2 file system.</para></sect4>
 filesystem present on a specified device.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>e2fsck and fsck.ext2</title>
-<para>e2fsck is used to check and optionally repair Linux second
+<para>e2fsck and fsck.ext2 are used to check, and optionally repair, Linux
-extended filesystems. fsck.ext2 does the same as e2fsck.</para></sect4>
+second extended filesystems.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>e2image</title>
-<para>e2image is used to save critical ext2 filesystem data to 
+<para>e2image is used to save critical ext2 filesystem data to
 a file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>e2label</title>
@@ -45,11 +45,11 @@ a file.</para></sect4>
 filesystem located on the specified device.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>fsck</title>
-<para>fsck is used to check and optionally repair a Linux 
+<para>fsck is used to check, and optionally repair, a Linux file
-file system.</para></sect4>
+system.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>fsck.ext3</title>
-<para>fsck.ext3 is used to check and optionally repair a Linux ext3 
+<para>fsck.ext3 is used to check, and optionally repair, a Linux ext3 
 filesystems.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>lsattr</title>
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ file system.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>mk_cmds</title>
 <para>The mk_cmds utility takes a command table file as input and produces
-a C source file as output which is intended to be used with the subsystem
+a C source file as output, which is intended to be used with the subsystem
 library, libss.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>mke2fs and mkfs.ext2</title>
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ filesystem.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>uuidgen</title>
 <para>The uuidgen program creates a new universally unique identifier (UUID) 
 using the libuuid library. The new UUID can reasonably be considered unique 
-among all UUIDs created on the local system, and among UUIDs created on other
+among all UUIDs created, on the local system and on other
-systems in the past and in the future.</para></sect4>
+systems, in the past and in the future.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>
 

appendixa/ed-desc.xml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 <sect3><title>Description</title>
 
 <sect4><title>ed</title>
-<para>ed is a line-oriented text editor.  It is used to create, display,
+<para>ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display,
 modify and otherwise manipulate text files.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>red</title>

appendixa/file-desc.xml

@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 
 <sect4><title>file</title>
 <para>file tests each specified file in an attempt to classify it. There are
-three sets  of  tests,  performed in this order: filesystem tests, 
+three sets of tests, performed in this order: filesystem tests, 
-magic number tests, and language tests. The first test that succeeds 
+magic number tests and language tests. The first test that succeeds 
 causes the file type to be printed.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>

appendixa/fileutils-desc.xml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ which can be either a group name or a numeric group ID.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>chmod</title>
 <para>chmod changes the permissions of each given file according to mode, which 
-can be either a symbolic representation of changes to make, or an octal 
+can be either a symbolic representation of changes to make or an octal 
 number representing the bit pattern for the new permissions.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>chown</title>
@@ -38,20 +38,20 @@ available on all currently mounted filesystems is shown.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>dir, ls and vdir</title>
 <para>dir and vdir are versions of ls with different default output formats. 
 These programs list each given file or directory name. Directory contents 
-are sorted alphabetically.  For ls, files are by default listed in columns, 
+are sorted alphabetically. For ls, files are, by default, listed in columns 
-sorted  vertically, if the standard output is a terminal; otherwise they 
+sorted vertically if the standard output is a terminal; otherwise they 
-are listed one per  line. For dir, files are by default listed in columns,
+are listed one per line. For dir, files are, by default, listed in columns
-sorted vertically. For vdir, files are by default listed in 
+sorted vertically. For vdir, files are, by default, listed in 
 long format.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>dircolors</title>
-<para>dircolors  outputs commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable.
+<para>dircolors outputs commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable.
 The LS_COLOR variable is use to change the default color scheme used by
 ls and related utilities.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>du</title>
-<para>du displays the amount of disk space used by each argument and for each 
+<para>du displays the amount of disk space used by each file or directory
-subdirectory of directory arguments.</para></sect4>
+listed on the command-line and by each of their subdirectories.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>install</title>
 <para>install copies files and sets their permission modes and, if possible, 

appendixa/flex-desc.xml

@@ -9,12 +9,11 @@
 
 <sect4><title>flex</title>
 <para>flex is a tool for generating programs which recognize 
-patterns in text.  Pattern recognition is very useful in many applications. 
+patterns in text. Pattern recognition is very useful in many applications. 
-A user sets up rules 
+A user sets up rules about what to look for and flex will make a program
-what to look for and flex will make a program that looks for those
+that looks for those patterns. The reason people use flex is that it is
-patterns. The reason people use flex is that it is much easier to set up 
+much easier to set up rules for what to look for than to write the actual
-rules for what to look for than to write the actual program which finds 
+program which finds the text.</para></sect4>
-the text.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>flex++</title>
 <para>flex++ invokes a version of flex which is used exclusively for 

appendixa/gcc-desc.xml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ g++, gcc, gccbug, gcov and tradcpp0</para></sect3>
 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <sect4><title>cc, cc1, cc1plus, gcc</title>
-<para>These are the C compiler.  A compiler translates source code in
+<para>These are the C compiler. A compiler translates source code in
 text format to a format that a computer understands. After a source code 
 file is compiled into an object file, a linker will create an executable 
 file from one or more of these compiler generated object files.</para></sect4>
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ gcc etc.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>c++filt</title>
 <para>The C++ language provides function overloading, which means that it is
 possible to write many functions with the same name (providing each takes
-parameters of different types).  All C++ function names are encoded into
+parameters of different types). All C++ function names are encoded into
 a low-level assembly label (this process is known as mangling). The c++filt
 program does the inverse mapping: it decodes (demangles) low-level names
 into user-level names so that the linker can keep these overloaded functions
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ libsupc++.a</para></sect3>
 programs including getopt, obstack, strerror, strtol and strtoul.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>libstdc++</title>
-<para>libstdc++ is the C++ library.  It is used by C++ programs and contains
+<para>libstdc++ is the C++ library. It is used by C++ programs and contains
 functions that are frequently used in C++ programs. This way the
 programmer doesn't have to write certain functions (such as writing a
 string of text to the screen) from scratch every time he creates a

appendixa/gettext-desc.xml

@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ team-address, trigger, urlget, user-email and xgettext</para></sect3>
 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <sect4><title>config.charset</title>
-<para>The config.charset script outputs a system dependent table of
+<para>The config.charset script outputs a system-dependent table of
 character encoding aliases.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>config.rpath</title>
-<para>The config.rpath script outputs a system dependent set of variables,
+<para>The config.rpath script outputs a system-dependent set of variables,
 describing how to set the run time search path of shared libraries in an
 executable.</para></sect4>
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ executable.</para></sect4>
 <para>The gettext package is used for internationalization (also known as
 i18n) and for localization (also known as l10n). Programs can be
 compiled with Native Language Support (NLS) which enable them to output
-messages in the users native language rather than in the default English
+messages in the user's native language rather than in the default English
 language.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>gettextize</title>
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ forms.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>msgattrib</title>
 <para>The msgattrib program filters the messages of a translation catalog
-according to their attributes, and manipulates the attributes.</para></sect4>
+according to their attributes and manipulates the attributes.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>msgcat</title>
 <para>The msgcat program finds messages which are common in several raw

appendixa/glibc-desc.xml

@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ PC profiling.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>pt_chown</title>
 <para>pt_chown sets the owner, group and access permission of the
 slave pseudo terminal corresponding to the master pseudo terminal passed 
-on file descriptor `3'.  This is the helper program for the `grantpt' 
+on file descriptor `3'. This is the helper program for the `grantpt' 
-function.  It is not intended to be run directly from the command
+function. It is not intended to be run directly from the command
 line.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>rpcgen</title>
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ line.</para></sect4>
 <para>rpcinfo makes an RPC call to an RPC server.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>sln</title>
-<para>sln symbolically links dest to source.  It is statically linked,
+<para>sln symbolically links dest to source. It is statically linked,
-needing no dynamic linking at all.  Thus sln is useful to make symbolic 
+needing no dynamic linking at all. Thus sln is useful to make symbolic 
 links to dynamic libraries if the dynamic linking system for some reason 
 is nonfunctional.</para></sect4>
 
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ segfaults.</para></sect4>
 programs in Linux.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>libc, libc_nonshared, libc_p</title>
-<para>These files constitute the main C library.  The C library is a
+<para>These files constitute the main C library. The C library is a
 collection of commonly used functions in programs.
 This way a programmer doesn't need to create his own functions for every
 single task. The most common things like writing a string to the screen
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ are already present and at the disposal of the programmer.</para>
 a dynamic and a static one. In short, when a program uses a static C
 library, the code from the C library is copied into the executable file.
 When a program uses a dynamic library, the executable will not
-contain the code from the C library, but  instead a routine that loads
+contain the code from the C library, but instead a routine that loads
 the functions from the library at the time the program is run. This
 means a significant decrease in the file size of a program. The
 documentation that comes with the C library describes this in more

appendixa/groff-desc.xml

@@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ for an HP Laserjet 4 printer.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>grotty</title>
 <para>grotty translates the output of GNU troff into a form suitable for 
-typewriter-like  devices.</para></sect4>
+typewriter-like devices.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>gtbl</title>
 <para>gtbl is the GNU implementation of tbl.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>hpftodit</title>
-<para>hpftodit creates a font file for use with groff -Tlj4 from an  HP
+<para>hpftodit creates a font file for use with groff -Tlj4 from an HP
 tagged font metric file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>indxbib</title>
@@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ standard output.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>lookbib</title>
 <para>lookbib prints a prompt on the standard error (unless the standard input 
 is not a terminal), reads from the standard input a line containing a set 
-of keywords, searches the bibliographic databases in a specified file for  
+of keywords, searches the bibliographic databases in a specified file for
 references containing those keywords, prints any references found on the
-standard output, and repeats this process until the end of input.</para></sect4>
+standard output and repeats this process until the end of input.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>mmroff</title>
 <para>mmroff is a simple preprocessor for groff.</para></sect4>
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ to ASCII.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pic</title>
 <para>pic compiles descriptions of pictures embedded within troff or TeX input 
-files into commands that are understood by TeX or  troff.</para></sect4>
+files into commands that are understood by TeX or troff.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pre-grohtml and post-grohtml</title>
 <para>pre- and post-grohtml translate the output of GNU troff 
@@ -102,17 +102,17 @@ to html.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>refer</title>
 <para>refer copies the contents of a file to the standard output, except that 
 lines between .[ and .] are interpreted as citations, and lines between .R1 
-and  .R2  are  interpreted as commands about how citations are to be 
+and .R2 are interpreted as commands about how citations are to be 
 processed.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>soelim</title>
 <para>soelim reads files and replaces lines of the form 
-<emphasis>.so file</emphasis> by  the  contents of
+<emphasis>.so file</emphasis> by the contents of
 <emphasis>file</emphasis>.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>tbl</title>
 <para>tbl compiles descriptions of tables embedded within troff input files 
-into commands that are understood  by  troff.</para></sect4>
+into commands that are understood by troff.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>tfmtodit</title>
 <para>tfmtodit creates a font file for use with <userinput>groff

appendixa/gzip-desc.xml

@@ -23,9 +23,8 @@ performance).</para></sect4>
 Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>zcat</title>
-<para>zcat uncompresses either a list of files on the command line or a
+<para>zcat uncompresses, and writes to standard output, either a list of files
-file being read from its standard input. Then, that uncompressed data is
+on the command line or a file being read from standard input.</para></sect4>
-written to standard output.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>zcmp</title>
 <para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para></sect4>
@@ -35,7 +34,7 @@ written to standard output.</para></sect4>
 
 <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 
+compress them twice. This can be useful for files with names truncated 
 after a file transfer.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>zgrep</title>
@@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ after a file transfer.</para></sect4>
 
 <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
+files, one screen at a time on a soft-copy terminal (similar to the
 more program).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>znew</title>

appendixa/introduction.xml

@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ please refer to its man page or info page.</para>
 than others, because we just happen to know more about certain
 packages than about others. If you think anything should be added to the
 following descriptions, please don't hesitate to email the mailing
-lists.  We intend that the list should contain an in-depth description 
+lists. We intend that the list should contain an in-depth description 
 of every package installed, but we can't do it without help.</para>
 
 <para>Please note that currently only what a package does is described and not
-why it needs to be installed.  This may be added later.</para>
+why it needs to be installed. This may be added later.</para>
 
 <para>Also listed are all of the installation dependencies for all the
 packages that are installed in this book. The listings will include

appendixa/kbd-desc.xml

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ table entries.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>setleds</title>
 <para>setleds sets the keyboard LEDs. Many people find it useful to have numlock
-enabled by default, and it is by using this program that you can 
+enabled by default and, by using this program, you can 
 achieve this.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>setlogcons</title>
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ achieve this.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>showfont</title>
 <para>showfont displays data about a font. The information shown includes font
-information, font properties, character metrics, and 
+information, font properties, character metrics and 
 character bitmaps.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>showkey</title>

appendixa/kernel-desc.xml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ software can run.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>linux kernel headers</title>
 <para>These are the files we copy to
-<filename>/usr/include/{linux,asm}</filename> in Chapter 5.  They should
+<filename>/usr/include/{linux,asm}</filename> in Chapter 5. They should
 match those which glibc was compiled against and therefore should
 <emphasis>not</emphasis> be replaced when upgrading the kernel. They are
 essential for compiling many programs.</para></sect4>

appendixa/less-desc.xml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 <sect4><title>less</title>
 <para>The less program is a file pager (or text viewer). It 
-displays the contents of a file with the ability to scroll. Less is an 
+displays the contents of a file and has the ability to scroll. Less is an 
 improvement on the common pager called <quote>more</quote>. Less has 
 the ability to scroll backwards through files as well and it doesn't need 
 to read the entire file when it starts, which makes it faster when reading 

appendixa/libtool-desc.xml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ package.</para></sect4>
 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <sect4><title>libltdl, libltdl.so.3, libltdl.so.3.1.0</title>
-<para>A small library that aims at hiding from programmers
+<para>A small library that aims at hiding, from programmers,
 the various difficulties of dlopening libraries.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>

appendixa/m4-desc.xml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <sect4><title>m4</title>
-<para>m4 is a macro processor. It copies input to output expanding macros as it
+<para>m4 is a macro processor. It copies input to output, expanding macros as it
 goes. Macros are either built-in or user-defined and can take any number
 of arguments. Besides just doing macro expansion, m4 has built-in functions
 for including named files, running Unix commands, doing integer arithmetic,

appendixa/man-desc.xml

@@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ whatis</para></sect3>
 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <sect4><title>apropos</title>
-<para>apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions 
+<para>apropos searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing
-of system commands for keywords and  displays the result on the standard 
+short descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard 
 output.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>makewhatis</title>
 <para>makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of 
 manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of 
-catpath. For  each  page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each 
+catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database. Each 
-line consists of the name of the page  and  a  short  description, 
+line consists of the name of the page and a short description, 
-separated  by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of 
+separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of 
 the NAME section of the manual page.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>man</title>
@@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ the NAME section of the manual page.</para></sect4>
 <para>man2html converts a manual page into html.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>whatis</title>
-<para>whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions 
+<para>
-of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard 
+whatis searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing short
+descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard 
 output. Only complete word matches are displayed.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>

appendixa/modutils-desc.xml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ modinfo, modprobe (link to insmod) and rmmod (link to insmod)</para></sect3>
 kernel modules.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>genksyms</title>
-<para>genksyms reads (on standard input) the output from gcc  -E source.c 
+<para>genksyms reads (on standard input) the output from gcc -E source.c 
 and generates a file containing version information.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>insmod</title>
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ running kernel.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>modinfo</title>
 <para>modinfo examines an object file associated with a kernel module and 
-displays any  information that it can glean.</para></sect4>
+displays any information that it can glean.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>modprobe</title>
 <para>modprobe uses a Makefile-like dependency file, created by depmod,

appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml

@@ -13,15 +13,15 @@ reset (link to tset), tack, tic, toe, tput and tset.</para></sect3>
 description.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>clear</title>
-<para>clear clears the screen if this is possible.  It looks in
+<para>clear clears the screen if this is possible. It looks in
 the environment for the terminal type and then in the terminfo database
 to figure out how to clear the screen.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>infocmp</title>
 <para>infocmp can be used to compare a binary terminfo entry with
 other terminfo entries, rewrite a terminfo description to 
-take advantage of the use=  terminfo field, or print  out  a  
+take advantage of the use= terminfo field, or print out a
-terminfo  description  from the binary file (term) in a variety of 
+terminfo description from the binary file (term) in a variety of 
 formats (the opposite of what tic does).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>infotocap</title>
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ description.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>reset</title>
 <para>reset sets cooked and echo modes, turns off cbreak and raw modes, 
-turns on new-line translation  and resets any unset special characters to
+turns on new-line translation and resets any unset special characters to
 their default values before doing terminal initialization the same way
 as tset.</para></sect4>
 

appendixa/nettools-desc.xml

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ addresses.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>netstat</title>
 <para>netstat is a multi-purpose tool used to print the network connections, 
-routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast 
+routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections and multicast 
 memberships.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>nisdomainname</title>

appendixa/perl-desc.xml

@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, pstruct, s2p and splain</para></sect3>
 <para>h2xs converts .h C header files to Perl extensions.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>perl, perl5.6.1</title>
-<para>perl is the Practical Extraction and Report Language.  It combines
+<para>perl is the Practical Extraction and Report Language. It combines
-some of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh into one powerful
+some of the best features of C, sed, awk and sh into one powerful
 language.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>perlbug</title>
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ modules that come with it, and mail them.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>perldoc</title>
 <para>perldoc looks up a piece of documentation in .pod format that is
-embedded in the perl installation tree or in a perl script, and displays it 
+embedded in the perl installation tree or in a perl script and displays it 
 via "pod2man | nroff -man | $PAGER".</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pl2pm</title>

appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 <sect3><title>Program Files</title>
 <para>chage, chfn, chpasswd, chsh, dpasswd, expiry, faillog, gpasswd, 
 groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, groups, grpck, grpconv, grpunconv, lastlog,
-login,  logoutd, mkpasswd, newgrp, newusers, passwd, pwck, pwconv, pwunconv,
+login, logoutd, mkpasswd, newgrp, newusers, passwd, pwck, pwconv, pwunconv,
 sg (link to newgrp), useradd, userdel, usermod, vigr (link to vipw) and
 vipw</para></sect3>
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ input and uses this information to update a group of
 existing users.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>chsh</title>
-<para>chsh  changes the user login shell.</para></sect4>
+<para>chsh changes the user login shell.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>dpasswd</title>
 <para>dpasswd adds, deletes, and updates dial-up passwords for 
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ are specified on the command line.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>vipw and vigr</title>
 <para>vipw and vigr will edit the files /etc/passwd and /etc/group, 
 respectively. With the -s flag, they will edit the shadow versions of 
-those files, /etc/shadow  and /etc/gshadow,  respectively.</para></sect4>
+those files, /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow, respectively.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>
 

appendixa/shellutils-desc.xml

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ integer numbers.</para></sect4>
 <para>false always exits with a status code indicating failure.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>groups</title>
-<para>groups prints the groups a user is in.</para></sect4>
+<para>groups prints a user's group memberships.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>hostid</title>
 <para>hostid prints the numeric identifier (in hexadecimal) for the current 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ user or a given user.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>nohup</title>
 <para>nohup runs a command immune to hangups, with output to a 
-non-tty.</para></sect4>
+log file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pathchk</title>
 <para>pathchk checks whether file names are valid or portable.</para></sect4>
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ a certain user.</para></sect4>
 <para>printenv prints all or part of the environment.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>printf</title>
-<para>printf formats and prints data (the same as the printf C 
+<para>printf formats and prints data (the same as the C printf 
 function).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pwd</title>

appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ the flag -h or -r).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>init</title>
 <para>init is the parent of all processes. Its primary role is to create 
-processes from  a  script  stored  in  the  file /etc/inittab. This  
+processes from a script stored in the file /etc/inittab. This
 file usually has entries which cause init to spawn gettys on each line that
 users can log in. It also controls autonomous processes required by any 
 particular system.</para></sect4>
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ shell that is running the script it was called from.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>last</title>
 <para>last searches back through the file /var/log/wtmp (or the file designated 
-by the -f flag) and displays a list of all users logged in (and  out) 
+by the -f flag) and displays a list of all users logged in (and out) 
 since that file was created.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>lastb</title>
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ the computer.</para></sect4>
 <sect4><title>runlevel</title>
 <para>runlevel reads the system utmp file (typically /var/run/utmp) to locate 
 the runlevel record, and then prints the previous and current system 
-runlevel on its standard  output, separated by a single space.</para></sect4>
+runlevel on its standard output, separated by a single space.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>shutdown</title>
 <para>shutdown brings the system down in a secure way. All logged-in users are 

appendixa/texinfo-desc.xml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ texindex</para></sect3>
 <sect4><title>info</title>
 <para>The info program reads Info documents, usually contained in the 
 /usr/share/info directory. Info documents are like man(ual) pages, but
-they tend to be more in depth than just explaining the options to a
+they tend to go deeper than just explaining the options to a
 program.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>infokey</title>
@@ -22,14 +22,14 @@ a binary format.</para></sect4>
 <para>The install-info program updates the info entries. When the info
 program is run, a list with available topics (ie: available info documents)
 will be presented. The install-info program is used to maintain this list of
-available topics. If info files are removed manually, it is also necessary
+available topics. If info files are removed manually, you must also delete
-to delete the topic in the index file as well. This program is used for
+the topic in the index file. This program is used for
 that. It also works the other way around when info documents are 
 added.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>makeinfo</title>
 <para>The makeinfo program translates Texinfo source documents into various 
-formats.  Available formats are: info files, plain text and HTML.</para></sect4>
+formats. Available formats are: info files, plain text and HTML.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>texi2dvi</title>
 <para>The texi2dvi program prints Texinfo documents.</para></sect4>

appendixa/textutils-desc.xml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ file.</para></sect4>
 <para>comm compares two sorted files line by line.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>csplit</title>
-<para>csplit outputs pieces of a file separated  by (a) pattern(s) to files
+<para>csplit outputs pieces of a file separated by (a) pattern(s) to files
 xx01, xx02, ..., and outputs byte counts of each piece to standard 
 output.</para></sect4>
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ output.</para></sect4>
 output.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>expand</title>
-<para>expand converts  tabs in files to spaces, writing to standard 
+<para>expand converts tabs in files to spaces, writing to standard 
 output.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>fmt</title>
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ output.</para></sect4>
 <para>uniq removes duplicate lines from a sorted file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>wc</title>
-<para>wc prints line, word, and byte counts for each specified file, and a
+<para>wc prints line, word and byte counts for each specified file and a
-total line if more than one file is specified.</para></sect4>
+total line, if more than one file is specified.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>
 

chapter01/blfssupport.xml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <title>blfs-support</title>
 
 <para>The blfs-support list handles support requests for any software
-that is not built or installed in the LFS book.  Any software beyond what is
+that is not built or installed in the LFS book. Any software beyond what is
 installed as part of the base LFS system can be discussed here.</para>
 
 </sect2>

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@
 </itemizedlist>
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>September 28th, 2002 [timothy]: Applied Bill Maltby's
+grammatic-fixes patch. Changed "$LFS" to "LFS" when speaking of the LFS
+environment variable.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>September 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Applied Bill Maltby's
 grammatic-related patches.</para></listitem>
 

chapter01/conventions.xml

@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
 <?dbhtml filename="conventions.html" dir="chapter01"?>
 
 <para>To make things easy to follow, there are a number of conventions used
-throughout the book.  Following are some examples:</para>
+throughout the book. Following are some examples:</para>
 
 <para><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></para>
 
 <blockquote><para>This form of text is designed to be typed exactly 
-as seen unless otherwise noted in the surrounding text.  It is also used 
+as seen unless otherwise noted in the surrounding text. It is also used 
 in the explanation sections to identify which of the commands is being 
 referenced.</para></blockquote>
 
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ bin:x:1:
 </para>
 
 <blockquote><para>This type of section is used mainly when creating 
-configuration files.  The first command (in bold) tells the system to create 
+configuration files. The first command (in bold) tells the system to create 
 the file $LFS/etc/group from whatever is typed on the following lines until 
 the sequence EOF is encountered. Therefore, this whole section is generally 
 typed as seen.</para></blockquote>

chapter01/lfssupport.xml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <title>lfs-support</title>
 
 <para>The lfs-support mailing list provides support to users building an
-LFS system as far as the end of the main book.  Requests for help with
+LFS system as far as the end of the main book. Requests for help with
 installing software beyond the base system should go to the blfs-support
 list.</para>
 

chapter01/unsubscribe.xml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ unsubscribe lfs-dev
 unsubscribe blfs-support
 unsubscribe alfs-discuss</literallayout></blockquote>
 
-<para>After the email is sent, the Listar program will reply with an  
+<para>After the email is sent, the Listar program will reply with an
 email requesting a confirmation of the unsubscription
 request. After this confirmation email is sent back, Listar will 
 send an email again with the message that the user has been unsubscribed 

chapter02/aboutlfs.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <?dbhtml filename="aboutlfs.html" dir="chapter02"?>
 
 <para>Please read the following carefully: throughout this book 
-the variable $LFS will be used frequently. $LFS must at all times be
+the variable LFS will be used frequently. $LFS must at all times be
 replaced with the directory where the partition that contains the LFS system 
 is mounted. How to create and where to mount the partition will be
 explained in full detail in Chapter 4. For example, let's assume that 
@@ -28,18 +28,18 @@ it literally. Your shell will replace $LFS with /mnt/lfs when it processes
 the command line (meaning when you hit enter after having typed the
 command).</para>
 
-<para>If you plan to use $LFS, do not forget to set the $LFS variable at all 
+<para>If you plan to use $LFS, do not forget to set the LFS variable at all 
 times. If the variable is not set and is used in a command, $LFS will 
 be ignored and whatever is left will be executed. A command like
 <userinput>echo "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash" &gt; 
-$LFS/etc/passwd</userinput> without the $LFS variable set will
+$LFS/etc/passwd</userinput> without the LFS variable set will
 re-create your host system's /etc/passwd file. Simply put: it will
 destroy your current password database file.</para>
 
 <para>One way to make sure that $LFS is set at all times is adding it to
 the /root/.bash_profile and /root/.bashrc files so that every time
 you login as user root, or you <userinput>su</userinput> to user root,
-the $LFS variable is set.</para>
+the LFS variable is set.</para>
 
 </sect1>
 

chapter02/askforhelp.xml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ essential things to include in your request are:</para>
 </itemizedlist>
 
 <para>(Note that saying that you've deviated from the book doesn't mean
-that we won't help you.  After all, LFS is about choice.  It'll just
+that we won't help you. After all, LFS is about choice. It'll just
 help us to see other possible causes of your problem.)</para>
 
 </sect2>
@@ -45,17 +45,17 @@ Include those relevant lines if you decide to ask for help.</para>
 
 <para>To help us find the cause of the problem, both screen output and
 the contents of various files are useful. The screen output from both
-the ./configure script and the make run can be useful.  Don't blindly
+the ./configure script and the make run can be useful. Don't blindly
 include the whole thing but on the other hand, don't include too little.
 As an example, here is some screen output from make:</para>
 
-<para><screen>gcc -DALIASPATH=\"/mnt/lfs/usr/share/locale:.\" 
+<para><screen>gcc -DALIASPATH=\"/mnt/lfs/usr/share/locale:.\"
--DLOCALEDIR=\"/mnt/lfs/usr/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/mnt/lfs/usr/lib\" 
+-DLOCALEDIR=\"/mnt/lfs/usr/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/mnt/lfs/usr/lib\"
--DINCLUDEDIR=\"/mnt/lfs/usr/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.   
+-DINCLUDEDIR=\"/mnt/lfs/usr/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.
 -g -O2 -c getopt1.c
-gcc  -g -O2 -static -o make  ar.o arscan.o commands.o dir.o expand.o file.o 
+gcc -g -O2 -static -o make ar.o arscan.o commands.o dir.o expand.o file.o
-function.o getopt.o implicit.o job.o main.o misc.o read.o remake.o rule.o 
+function.o getopt.o implicit.o job.o main.o misc.o read.o remake.o rule.o
-signame.o variable.o vpath.o default.o remote-stub.o version.o opt1.o    
+signame.o variable.o vpath.o default.o remote-stub.o version.o opt1.o
 -lutil job.o: In function `load_too_high':
 /lfs/tmp/make-3.79.1/job.c:1565: undefined reference to `getloadavg'
 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
@@ -66,16 +66,16 @@ make[1]: Leaving directory `/lfs/tmp/make-3.79.1'
 make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2</screen></para>
 
 <para>In this case, many people just include the bottom section where it
-says <screen>make [2]: *** [make] Error 1</screen> and onwards.  This
+says <screen>make [2]: *** [make] Error 1</screen> and onwards. This
 isn't enough for us to diagnose the problem because it only tells us
 that <emphasis>something</emphasis> went wrong, not
-<emphasis>what</emphasis> went wrong.  The whole section, as
+<emphasis>what</emphasis> went wrong. The whole section, as
 in the example above, is what should be included to be helpful, because it
 includes the command that was executed and the command's error
 message(s).</para>
 
 <para>An excellent article on asking for help on the Internet in general
-has been written by Eric S. Raymond.  It is available online at <ulink
+has been written by Eric S. Raymond. It is available online at <ulink
 url="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html"/>.
 Read and follow the hints in that document and you are much more likely
 to get a response to start with and also to get the help you actually

chapter02/install.xml

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 <?dbhtml filename="install.html" dir="chapter02"?>
 
 <para>Before you start using the LFS book, we should point out that all
-of the commands here assume that you are using the bash shell.  If you
+of the commands here assume that you are using the bash shell. If you
-aren't, the commands may work, but we can't guarantee it.  If you want a
+aren't, the commands may work, but we can't guarantee it. If you want a
 simple life, use bash.</para>
 
 <para>Before you can actually start doing something with a package, you need
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ running:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>bzcat filename.tar.bz2 | tar -xv</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>Nowadays most tar programs, but not all, are
-patched to be able to use bzip2 files directly.  They use either
+patched to be able to use bzip2 files directly. They use either
 the -I, the -y, or the -j parameter, which work the same as the -z
 parameter for handling gzip files. The above construction, however,
 works no matter how your host system decided to patch tar.</para>
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ 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 before then
-will use the kernel tree, so the source tree won't be in your way.  If,
+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>
 

chapter02/platform.xml

@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
 <para>LFS intends to be, as far as possible, platform independent. Having
 said that, the main LFS development work occurs on the x86 platform. We
 attempt to include information where possible on differences for other
-platforms such as PPC.  If you come across a problem compiling which is
+platforms such as PPC. If you come across a problem compiling which is
 not related to the x86 platform, still feel free to ask for help on the
-mailing lists.  Even better, if you come up with a solution to a
+mailing lists. Even better, if you come up with a solution to a
 particular problem related to one of the other platforms, please let us
-know at the lfs-dev mailing list.  We will then (subject to confirming
+know at the lfs-dev mailing list. We will then (subject to confirming
 it works) include that in the book.</para>
 
 </sect1>

chapter03/mounting.xml

@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ directory is chosen, just make sure you remember what you chose.</para>
 
 <para>Replace <quote>xxx</quote> by the partition's designation (like hda11).</para>
 
-<para>This directory (/mnt/lfs) is the $LFS variable you have read about 
+<para>This directory (/mnt/lfs) is the LFS variable you have read about 
-back in Chapter 2. If you were planning to make use of the $LFS environment 
+back in Chapter 2. If you were planning to make use of the LFS environment 
 variable, <userinput>export LFS=/mnt/lfs</userinput> has to be executed 
 now.</para>
 

chapter05/binutils-inst.xml

@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 
 <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its default
 optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Binutils is
-best left alone.  Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
+best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
 that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
-recommend unsetting or modifying them when building binutils.  You have been
+recommend unsetting or modifying them when building binutils. You have been
 warned.</para>
 
 <para>Install Binutils by running the following commands:</para>

chapter05/gcc-exp.xml

@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ This patch fixes a few bugs. In particular it contains the "copy fix" and
 "var fix" documented at 
 <ulink url="http://www.zipworld.com.au/~gschafer/lfs-tweaks.html"/>.</para>
 
-<para><userinput>--prefix=/static:</userinput> This is NOT a typo.  GCC hard
+<para><userinput>--prefix=/static:</userinput> This is NOT a typo. GCC hard
 codes some paths while compiling and so we need to pass /static as the
-prefix during ./configure.  We pass the real install prefix during the
+prefix during ./configure. We pass the real install prefix during the
 make install command later.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>--enable-languages=c:</userinput> This builds the C

chapter05/gcc-inst.xml

@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ commands.</para>
 
 <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its
 default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). GCC is
-best left alone.  Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
+best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
 that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
-recommend unsetting or modifying them when building GCC.  You have
+recommend unsetting or modifying them when building GCC. You have
 been warned.</para>
 
 <para>Install GCC by running the following commands:</para>

chapter05/patch-exp.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 <para><userinput>CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE: </userinput>
 This flag fixes installation problems of this package on PPC and m68k
-platforms (that we know of).  It doesn't hurt compilation on other
+platforms (that we know of). It doesn't hurt compilation on other
 platforms, such as x86, so we do it by default.</para>
 
 </sect2>

chapter05/whystatic.xml

@@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ saved any space (except maybe RAM until the library is needed). The
 <emphasis>real</emphasis> advantage of dynamically linked libraries is
 that we only need one copy of the library. If <filename>ls</filename> and
 <filename>rm</filename> both use the same library, then we don't need two
-copies of the library, as they can both get the code from the same file.  
+copies of the library, as they can both get the code from the same file.
 Even when in memory, the two programs share the same code, rather than loading
 duplicates into memory. So not only are we saving hard disk space, but also
 precious RAM.</para>
 
 <para>If dynamic linking saves so much room, then why are we making everything
-statically linked?  Well, that's because when you chroot into your brand new
+statically linked? Well, that's because when you chroot into your brand new
 (but very incomplete) LFS environment, these dynamic libraries won't be
 available because they are somewhere else in your old directory tree
 (<filename>/usr/lib</filename> for example) which won't be accessible 
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ all the programs we just did in Chapter 5, but this time dynamically linked,
 so that we can take advantage of the space saving opportunities.</para>
 
 <para>And there you have it, that's why you need to use those weird
-<userinput>-static</userinput> flags.  If you try building everything 
+<userinput>-static</userinput> flags. If you try building everything 
 without them, you'll see very quickly what
 happens when you chroot into your newly crippled LFS system.</para>
 

chapter06/aboutdebug.xml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <title>About debugging symbols</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="aboutdebug.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
-<para>Most programs and libraries are by default compiled with debugging
+<para>Most programs and libraries are, by default, compiled with debugging
 symbols included (with gcc option -g).</para>
 
 <para>When debugging a program or library that was compiled with debugging
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Wildcards can be used to treat multiple files (use something like
 
 <para>For your convenience, Chapter 9 includes one simple command to strip
 all debugging symbols from all programs and libraries on your system.
-Additional information on optimization you can find in the hint at
+Additional information on optimization can be found in the hint at
 <ulink url="&hints-root;optimization.txt"/>.</para>
 
 </sect1>

chapter06/binutils-exp.xml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <title>Command explanations</title>
 
 <para><userinput>tooldir=/usr:</userinput> Normally, the tooldir (the
-directory where the executables from binutils end up in) is set to
+directory where the executables from binutils end up) is set to
 $(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias) which expands into, for example, 
 /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu. Since we only build for our own system, we don't
 need this target specific directory in /usr. That setup would be used

chapter06/binutils-inst.xml

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
 <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its
 default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Binutils
-is best left alone.  Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
+is best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
 that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
-recommend unsetting or modifying them when building binutils.  You have
+recommend unsetting or modifying them when building binutils. You have
 been warned.</para>
 
 <para>Install Binutils by running the following commands:</para>

chapter06/bzip2-exp.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 <para><userinput>make -f Makefile-libbz2_so:</userinput> This will cause bzip2
 to be built using a different Makefile file, in this case the
-Makefile-libbz2_so file which creates a dynamic libbz2.so library and
+Makefile-libbz2_so file, which creates a dynamic libbz2.so library and
 links the bzip2 utilities against it.</para>
 
 </sect2>

chapter06/bzip2-inst.xml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ mv /usr/bin/{bzip2recover,bzless,bzmore} /bin &&
 ln -s bzip2 /bin/bunzip2 &&
 ln -s bzip2 /bin/bzcat</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>Although it's not strictly a part of a basic LFS system it's worth
+<para>Although it's not strictly a part of a basic LFS system, it's worth
 mentioning that a patch for Tar can be downloaded which enables the tar
 program to compress and uncompress using bzip2/bunzip2 easily. With a
 plain tar, you have to use constructions like

chapter06/chroot.xml

@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 <sect1 id="ch06-chroot">
-<title>Entering the chroot'ed environment</title>
+<title>Entering the chroot environment</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="chroot.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
-<para>It is time to enter the chroot'ed environment in order to begin installing
+<para>It is time to enter the chroot environment in order to begin installing
 the packages we need. Before you can chroot, however, you need to become
 <emphasis>root</emphasis>, since only <emphasis>root</emphasis>
 can execute the <userinput>chroot</userinput> command.</para>
 
 <para>Become <emphasis>root</emphasis> and run the following command
-to enter the chroot'ed environment:</para>
+to enter the chroot environment:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>chroot $LFS /static/bin/env -i \
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;HOME=/root TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \
@@ -17,20 +17,20 @@ to enter the chroot'ed environment:</para>
 </para>
 
 <para>The <userinput>-i</userinput> option given to the
-<userinput>env</userinput> command will clear all variables of the chroot'ed
+<userinput>env</userinput> command will clear all variables of the chroot
 environment. After that, only the HOME, TERM, PS1 and PATH variables are
 set again. The TERM=$TERM construct will set the TERM variable inside chroot
 to the same value as outside chroot; this variable is needed for programs
 like vim and less to operate properly. If you need other variables present,
 such as CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS, this is a good place to set them again.</para>
 
-<para>From this point on there's no need anymore to use the $LFS variable,
+<para>From this point on there's no need anymore to use the LFS variable,
 because everything you do will be restricted to the LFS file system -- since
 what the shell thinks is <filename class="directory">/</filename> is actually
 <filename class="directory">/mnt/lfs</filename>.</para>
 
 <para>You have to make sure all the commands in the rest of this chapter and
-in the following chapters are run from within the chroot'ed environment.
+in the following chapters are run from within the chroot environment.
 If you ever leave this environment for any reason (rebooting for example),
 you must remember to again enter chroot and mount proc (discussed later)
 before continuing with the installations.</para>

chapter06/creatingdirs.xml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <title>Creating directories</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="creatingdirs.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
-<para>Let's now create some structure in our LFS file system, let's create
+<para>Let's now create some structure in our LFS file system. Let's create
 a directory tree. Issuing the following commands will create a more or less
 standard tree:</para>
  
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ mkdir /opt/{bin,doc,include,info} &amp;&amp;
 mkdir -p /opt/{lib,man/man{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}} &amp;&amp;
 ln -s ../var/tmp /usr</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>Directories are by default created with permission mode 755, but this
+<para>Directories are, by default, created with permission mode 755, but this
 isn't desirable for all directories. We will make two changes: one to the home
 directory of root, and another to the directories for temporary files.</para>
 
@@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>The first mode change ensures that not just everybody can enter the
 <filename class="directory">/root</filename> directory -- the same
-a normal user would do with his or her home directory.
+as a normal user would do with his or her home directory.
 The second mode change makes sure that any user can write to the
 <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename> and
 <filename class="directory">/var/tmp</filename> directories, but
-cannot remove other users's files from them. The latter is prohibited
+cannot remove other users' files from them. The latter is prohibited
 by the so-called "sticky bit" -- the highest bit in the 1777 bit mask.</para>
 
 <para>Now that the directories are created, move the source tarballs that
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ tree this standard stipulates the existence of
 <filename class="directory">/usr/share/games</filename>, but we don't
 much like these for a base system. However, feel free to make your system
 FHS-compliant. As to the structure of the
-<filename class="directory">/usr/local/share</filename> subdirectory the FHS
+<filename class="directory">/usr/local/share</filename> subdirectory, the FHS
 isn't precise, so we created here the directories that we think are needed.</para>
 
 </sect2>

chapter06/e2fsprogs-exp.xml

@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 <para><userinput>--with-root-prefix="":</userinput> The
 reason for supplying this option is because of the setup of the
 e2fsprogs Makefile. Some programs are essential for system use when,
-for example, /usr isn't mounted (like the e2fsck program).  These 
+for example, /usr isn't mounted (like the e2fsck program). These 
-programs and libraries therefore belong in directories like /lib and 
+programs and libraries, therefore, belong in directories like /lib and 
 /sbin. If this option isn't passed to E2fsprogs's configure, it places 
-these programs in /usr which  is not what we want.</para>
+these programs in /usr, which is not what we want.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>--enable-elf-shlibs:</userinput> This creates shared
 libraries that some programs in this package can make use of.</para>

chapter06/findutils-inst.xml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ make libexecdir=/usr/bin install</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>By default, the location of the updatedb database is in /usr/var.
 If you would rather be FHS compliant, you may wish to use another
-location.  The following commands use the database file 
+location. The following commands use the database file 
 <filename>/var/lib/misc/locatedb</filename> which is FHS compliant.</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-patch-version;.patch &amp;&amp;

chapter06/gcc-inst.xml

@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ commands.</para>
 
 <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its
 default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). GCC is
-best left alone.  Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
+best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
 that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
-recommend unsetting or modifying them when building Gcc.  You have
+recommend unsetting or modifying them when building Gcc. You have
 been warned.</para>
 
 <para>Install GCC by running the following commands. These commands will build

chapter06/glibc-exp.xml

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ of libraries with profiling information. This command may be omitted if
 you plan to do profiling.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>--enable-add-ons:</userinput> This enables the add-on that
-we install with Glibc: linuxthreads</para>
+we install with Glibc, linuxthreads</para>
 
 <para><userinput>--libexecdir=/usr/bin:</userinput> This will cause the
 pt_chown program to be installed in the /usr/bin directory.</para>

chapter06/glibc-inst.xml

@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ would do.</para>
 
 <para>This package is known to behave badly when you have changed its
 default optimization flags (including the -march and -mcpu options). Glibc
-is best left alone.  Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
+is best left alone. Therefore, if you have defined any environment variables
 that override default optimizations, such as CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, we
-recommend unsetting or modifying them when building Glibc.  You have
+recommend unsetting or modifying them when building Glibc. You have
 been warned.</para>
 
 <para>Also, don't pass the --enable-kernel option to the configure
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ exec /static/bin/bash --login</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>An alternative to running <userinput>make
 localedata/install-locales</userinput> is to only install those locales
-which you need or want.  This can be achieved using the localedef
+which you need or want. This can be achieved using the localedef
-command.  Information on this can be found in the INSTALL
+command. Information on this can be found in the INSTALL
 file in the glibc-&glibc-version; tree. One thing to note is that the
 <userinput>localedef</userinput> program assumes that the <filename
 class="directory">/usr/lib/locale</filename> directory exists, so you need
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ to create it first.</para>
 
 <para>The Linux Threads man pages are not going to be installed at this
 point because it requires a working Perl installation. We'll install Perl
-later on in this chapter so we'll come back to the Linux Threads man page
+later on in this chapter, so we'll come back to the Linux Threads man page
 installation after that.</para>
 
 <para>During the configure stage you will see the following warning:</para>

chapter06/groff-exp.xml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <title>Command explanations</title>
 
 <para><userinput>make PROCESSEDEXAMPLEFILES="":</userinput> Groff has a few
-extra dependencies that we don't install with LFS. This option disable the
+extra dependencies that we don't install with LFS. This option disables the
 need for those tools.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>ln -s ...</userinput>: These symlinks are needed for some

chapter06/introduction.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <?dbhtml filename="introduction.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
 <para>In this chapter we enter the building site, and start
-constructing our LFS system in earnest.  That is, we chroot into
+constructing our LFS system in earnest. That is, we chroot into
 our temporary mini Linux system, create some auxiliary things,
 and then start installing all the packages, one by one.</para>
  
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ take a look at the optimization hint at
 Compiler optimizations can make a program run faster, but they
 may also cause compilation difficulties. If a package refuses
 to compile when using optimization, try to compile it without
-optimization and see if  the problem goes away.</para>
+optimization and see if the problem goes away.</para>
 
 <para>The order in which packages are installed in this chapter has
 to be strictly followed, to ensure that no program gets a path referring
 to <filename class="directory">/static</filename> hard-wired into it.
 For the same reason, <emphasis>do not </emphasis> compile packages
-in parallel.  Compiling in parallel may save you some time (especially on
+in parallel. Compiling in parallel may save you some time (especially on
 dual-CPU machines), but it could result in a program containing a
 hard-wired path to <filename class="directory">/static</filename>,
 which will cause the program to stop working when the static directory

chapter06/kbd-exp.xml

@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 
 <para><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../kbd-&kbd-patch-version;.patch</userinput>:
 This patch fixes two problems. The first one is the <userinput>loadkeys -d</userinput>
-behaviour which is broken in current kbd versions. It is necessary to fix this,
+behaviour, which is broken in current kbd versions. It is necessary to fix this,
 because the boot scripts rely on a proper <userinput>loadkeys -d</userinput>.
-The second part of the patch changes a Makefile so some utilities (setlogcons,
+The second part of the patch changes a Makefile so some utilities that are
-setvesablank and getunimap) that are not installed by default, are installed as
+not installed by default (setlogcons, setvesablank and getunimap) are also
-well.</para>
+installed.</para>
 
 </sect2>
 

chapter06/kernel-exp-headers.xml

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ sources should go into "/usr/src/linux" even though that hasn't been
 true in a _loong_ time.</screen>
 
 <para>The essential part is where Linus states that the header files should be
-<emphasis>the ones which glibc was compiled against</emphasis>.  These are
+<emphasis>the ones which glibc was compiled against</emphasis>. These are
 the headers that should be used when you later compile other packages, as they
 are the ones that match the object-code library files. By copying the headers,
 we ensure that they remain available if later you upgrade your kernel.</para>

chapter06/kernel-exp.xml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ for that. At the end we remove it again.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>make mrproper</userinput>: This ensures that the kernel
 tree is absolutely clean. The kernel team recommends that this command be
-issued prior to <emphasis>each</emphasis> kernel compilation, and that you
+issued prior to <emphasis>each</emphasis> kernel compilation and that you
 shouldn't rely on the source tree being clean after untarring.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>make include/linux/version.h</userinput> and

chapter06/lilo-inst.xml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ update. Don't do this, as it has no use: the /etc/lilo.conf isn't present
 yet. We will complete the installation of lilo in Chapter 8.</para>
 
 <para>The standard LILO prompt, or menu, may be replaced by the
-LFS logo, or any logo you like. Martin Imobersteg has written a
+LFS logo or any logo you like. Martin Imobersteg has written a
 hint about this, which is located at 
 <ulink url="&hints-root;bootlogo.txt"/>.</para>
 

chapter06/makedev-exp.xml

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 <para><userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic:</userinput> This creates a whole
 bunch of devices. Normally, these are all the devices you will need. But it
 is possible that some special devices needed for your hardware configuration
-are missing. Create these with ./MAKEDEV -v &lt;device&gt;.  
+are missing. Create these with ./MAKEDEV -v &lt;device&gt;.
 The <userinput>generic-nopty</userinput> option mostly creates the same
-devices as <userinput>generic-nopty</userinput>, but skips those that aren't
+devices as <userinput>generic</userinput>, but skips those that aren't
 needed if you are using devpts.</para>
 
 </sect2>

chapter06/makedev-inst.xml

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <sect2>
 <title>Creating devices</title>
 
-<para>(Note that unpacking the MAKEDEV-&makedev-version;.bz2 file doesn't create
+<para>Note that unpacking the MAKEDEV-&makedev-version;.bz2 file doesn't create
-a directory for you to cd into, as the file only contains a script.)</para>
+a directory for you to cd into, as the file only contains a script.</para>
 
 <para>Prepare for the creation of the device files by running the
 following commands:</para>

chapter06/man-inst.xml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ edit the man.conf file and add the <userinput>-c</userinput> argument
 to nroff.</para>
 
 <para>You may want to take a look at the man hint 
-at <ulink url="&hints-root;man.txt"/> which deals with formatting 
+at <ulink url="&hints-root;man.txt"/>, which deals with formatting 
 and compression issues for man pages.</para>
 
 </sect2>

chapter06/mountproc.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <?dbhtml filename="proc.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
 <para>In order for certain programs to function properly, the proc file
-system must be available within the chroot'ed environment.
+system must be available within the chroot environment.
 As a file system can be mounted as many times and in as many places
 as you like, it's not a problem that the proc file system is already
 mounted on your host system -- especially so because proc is a
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ command, such as these:</para>
 <blockquote><screen>warning: can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
 not enough memory</screen></blockquote>
 
-<para>Ignore these, they're just caused due to the fact that the system
+<para>Ignore these, they're just due to the fact that the system
 isn't installed completely yet and some files are missing. The mount itself
 will be successful and that's all we care about at this point.</para>
 

chapter06/ncurses-exp.xml

@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ constructions that are no longer valid in the new C++ standard.</para>
 shared ncurses library files.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>chmod 755 *.5.2:</userinput> Shared libraries should be
-executable.  Ncurses install routine doesn't set the permissions
+executable. Ncurses's install routine doesn't set the permissions
 properly so we do it manually instead.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>ln -sf libncurses.a libcurses.a:</userinput> Some
-programs try to link using -lcurses instead of -lncurses.  This symlink
+programs try to link using -lcurses instead of -lncurses. This symlink
 ensures that such programs will link without errors.</para>
 
 </sect2>

chapter06/nettools-inst.xml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ make update</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during
 the <userinput>make</userinput> phase, then just accept the defaults, which
-will be just in fine in the majority of the cases. What you are asked here
+will be just fine in the majority of the cases. What you are asked here
 are a bunch of questions relating to the kind of network protocols that you
 have enabled in your kernel.</para>
 

chapter06/perl-inst.xml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ make &&
 make install</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>If you want more control over the way perl sets itself up to be
-build, you can run the interactive <userinput>Configure</userinput> script
+built, you can run the interactive <userinput>Configure</userinput> script
 and modify the way perl is built. If you think you can live with the
 (sensible) defaults perl auto-detects, then just use the commands listed
 above.</para>

chapter06/pwdgroup.xml

@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ audio:x:11:
 
 <para>The created groups aren't part of any standard -- they are the groups
 that the MAKEDEV script in the next section uses.
-Besides the group "root", the LSB recommends only a group "bin" with a GID
+Besides the group "root", the LSB recommends only a group "bin", with a GID
-of 1 to be present. All other group names and GIDs can be chosen freely by
+of 1, be present. All other group names and GIDs can be chosen freely by
 the user, as well-written packages don't depend on GID numbers but use the
 group's name.</para>
 

chapter07/hostname.xml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ running:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>echo "HOSTNAME=lfs" &gt; /etc/sysconfig/network</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para><quote>lfs</quote> needs to be replaced with the name the computer is 
-to be called.  You should not enter the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain
+to be called. You should not enter the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain
 Name) here. That information will be put in the
 <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file later on.</para>