Applied Bill's chapter 5 fixes patch.

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appendixa/fileutils-desc.xml

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ their owner and group.</para></sect4>
 <para>mkfifo creates a FIFO with each given name.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>mknod</title>
-<para>mknod creates a FIFO, character special file, or block special file 
+<para>mknod creates a FIFO, character special file or block special file 
 with the given file name.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>mv</title>

appendixa/findutils-desc.xml

@@ -28,26 +28,26 @@ using front-compression, which reduces the database size by a factor of
 4 to 5.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>locate</title>
-<para>locate scans a database which contain all files and directories on a
+<para>locate scans a database which contains all files and directories on a
 filesystem. This program lists the files and directories in this
 database matching a certain criteria. If a user is looking for a file this
 program will scan the database and tell him exactly where the files he
 requested are located. This only makes sense if the locate database is
-fairly up-to-date else it will provide out-of-date information.</para></sect4>
+fairly up-to-date, else it will provide out-of-date information.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>updatedb</title>
 <para>The updatedb program updates the locate database. It scans the entire
-file system (including other file system that are currently mounted
+file system (including other file systems that are currently mounted
 unless it is told not to do so) and puts every directory and file it finds
-into the database that's used by the locate program which retrieves this
+into the database that's used by the locate program, which retrieves this
 information. It's good practice to update this database once a day to
 have it up-to-date whenever it is needed.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>xargs</title>
 <para>The xargs command applies a command to a list of files. If there is 
-a need to perform the same command on multiple files, a file can be created 
-that contains all these files (one per line) and use xargs to perform that
-command on the list.</para></sect4>
+a need to perform the same command on multiple files, a list can be created 
+that names all those files (one per line) and xargs can perform that
+command on those files.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>
 

appendixa/gawk-desc.xml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pwcat</para></sect3>
 <para>awk is a symbolic link to gawk.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>gawk, gawk-3.1.1</title>
-<para>gawk is the GNU implementation of the AWK,
+<para>gawk is the GNU implementation of awk,
 a pattern scanning and processing language.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>grcat</title>

appendixa/gcc-desc.xml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ 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>
 
 <sect4><title>c++, cc1plus, g++</title>
-<para>These are the C++ compiler; the equivalent of cc and 
+<para>These are the C++ compiler, the equivalent of cc and 
 gcc etc.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>c++filt</title>
@@ -31,12 +31,10 @@ from clashing.</para></sect4>
 <para>collect2 assists with the compilation of constructors.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>cpp, cpp0</title>
-<para>cpp pre-processes a source file, such as including
-the contents of header files into the source file. It's a good idea to
-not do this manually to save a lot of time. Someone just inserts a line
-like #include &lt;filename&gt;. The preprocessor inserts the
-contents of that file into the source file. That's one of the things a
-preprocessor does.</para></sect4>
+<para>cpp pre-processes a source file, such as including the contents of
+header files into the source file. Simply add a line, such as #include
+&lt;filename&gt;, to your source file. The preprocessor will insert the
+contents of the included file into the source file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>gccbug</title>
 <para>gccbug is a shell script which is used to simplify the creation of

appendixa/gzip-desc.xml

@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ 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 its 
-standard input and writes the uncompressed data on 
-standard output.</para></sect4>
+<para>zcat uncompresses either a list of files on the command line or a
+file being read from its standard input. Then, that uncompressed data is
+written to standard output.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>zcmp</title>
 <para>zcmp invokes the cmp program on compressed files.</para></sect4>

appendixa/texinfo-desc.xml

@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ a binary format.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>install-info</title>
 <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
+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
 to delete the topic in the index file as well. This program is used for
 that. It also works the other way around when info documents are 

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -60,8 +60,10 @@
 </para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>September 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Applied Bill Maltby's
-grammatic-fixes patch. Added <userinput>-</userinput> before
-<userinput>tar</userinput> options (for clarity).</para></listitem>
+grammatic-related patches.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>September 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Added <userinput>-</userinput>
+before <userinput>tar</userinput> options (for clarity).</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06: Applied Alex's
 grammatic-fixes patch.</para></listitem>

chapter05/gcc-exp.xml

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ This is the equivalent to make LDFLAGS=-static as we use with other
 packages to compile them statically.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>ln -s gcc $LFS/static/bin/cc:</userinput> This
-creates the $LFS/static/bin/gcc symlink which some packages need.</para>
+creates the $LFS/static/bin/gcc symlink, which some packages need.</para>
 
 </sect2>
 

chapter05/patch-exp.xml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 <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 (such as x86); so we do it by default.</para>
+platforms, such as x86, so we do it by default.</para>
 
 </sect2>
 

chapter05/shellutils-inst.xml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 applied. This patch is needed to avoid a conflict of variable names with
 certain Glibc versions (usually glibc-2.1.x) when compiling sh-utils
 statically. It is however safe to apply the patch even if you are running
-a different glibc version, so if you aren't sure, it's best to apply
+a different glibc version. So, if you aren't sure, it's best to apply
 it.</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../sh-utils-&sh-utils-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>