Index: basicnet/netprogs/cvs/cvs-intro.xml
===================================================================
--- basicnet/netprogs/cvs/cvs-intro.xml	(revision a78534db7ffadc7d56c2e1fe296c4b6fa43beab1)
+++ basicnet/netprogs/cvs/cvs-intro.xml	(revision b614eb096ebc85a56ab65435807ac7d5d57fbdaf)
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 <title>Introduction to <application><acronym>CVS</acronym></application></title>
 
-<para><application><acronym>CVS</acronym></application> is the concurrent 
-versioning system. This is useful for projects on which multiple people are 
-working or where archives of previous versions of files need to be kept.</para>
+<para><application><acronym>CVS</acronym></application> is the Concurrent 
+Versioning System. This is a version control system useful for projects
+using a central repository to hold files and then tracks all changes made to 
+those files. These instruction install the client used to manuplate the
+repository, creation of a repository is covered at <xref linkend="cvsserver"/>.
+</para>
 
 <sect3><title>Package information</title>
Index: general/genlib/gdbm/gdbm-inst.xml
===================================================================
--- general/genlib/gdbm/gdbm-inst.xml	(revision a78534db7ffadc7d56c2e1fe296c4b6fa43beab1)
+++ general/genlib/gdbm/gdbm-inst.xml	(revision b614eb096ebc85a56ab65435807ac7d5d57fbdaf)
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 make BINOWN=root BINGRP=root install</command></userinput></screen>
 
-<para>In addition, you may need to install the compatibility
-headers for gdbm.  Apache 1.3, for example, will need these headers.
-Install the compatibility headers by running the following command:</para>
+<para>In addition, you may need to install the compatibility headers for 
+<application><acronym>GDBM</acronym></application>.  Apache 1.3, for example, 
+would need these headers. Install the compatibility headers by running the 
+following command:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput><command>make BINOWN=root BINGRP=root install-compat</command></userinput></screen>
Index: general/genlib/gdbm/gdbm-intro.xml
===================================================================
--- general/genlib/gdbm/gdbm-intro.xml	(revision a78534db7ffadc7d56c2e1fe296c4b6fa43beab1)
+++ general/genlib/gdbm/gdbm-intro.xml	(revision b614eb096ebc85a56ab65435807ac7d5d57fbdaf)
@@ -4,5 +4,8 @@
 <para>The <application><acronym>GDBM</acronym></application> package
 contains the <acronym>GNU</acronym> Database Manager. This 
-is useful for database routines that use extendible hashing.</para>
+is a disk file format database which stores key/data-pairs in single
+files. The actual data of any record being stored is indexed by a unique
+key, which can be retrieved in less time than if it was stored in a text
+file.</para>
 
 <sect3><title>Package information</title>
Index: introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision a78534db7ffadc7d56c2e1fe296c4b6fa43beab1)
+++ introduction/welcome/changelog.xml	(revision b614eb096ebc85a56ab65435807ac7d5d57fbdaf)
@@ -12,4 +12,11 @@
 <itemizedlist>
 
+<listitem><para>October 9, 2003 [larry]: applied new compressdoc patch,
+updated intros on GDBM and CVS and standardized the replaceable in
+docbook-dsssl.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>October 9th, 2003 [tushar]: Added errno patch for
+compface. Changed URL for sane.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>October 8th, 2003 [igor]: Added missing http/ftp
 links (part VIII).</para></listitem>
@@ -20,7 +27,4 @@
 
 <itemizedlist>
-
-<listitem><para>October 9th, 2003 [tushar]: Added errno patch for
-compface. Changed URL for sane.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>October 7th, 2003 [igor]: Added missing http/ftp
Index: postlfs/config/compressdoc.xml
===================================================================
--- postlfs/config/compressdoc.xml	(revision a78534db7ffadc7d56c2e1fe296c4b6fa43beab1)
+++ postlfs/config/compressdoc.xml	(revision b614eb096ebc85a56ab65435807ac7d5d57fbdaf)
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 
 <screen><userinput><command>cat &gt; /usr/bin/compressdoc &lt;&lt; "EOF"</command>
-
 #!/bin/bash
-# VERSION: 20031004.0245
+# VERSION: 20031009.1920
 #
 # Compress (with bzip2 or gzip) all man pages in a hierarchy and
@@ -129,12 +128,10 @@
   BASENAME=`basename "${2}" .bz2`
   BASENAME=`basename "${BASENAME}" .gz`
-  LIST=
-  [ -f "$DIR"/"${BASENAME}" -o -L "$DIR"/"${BASENAME}" ] &amp;&amp; LIST="${LIST} ${BASENAME}"
-  [ -f "$DIR"/"${BASENAME}".gz -o -L "$DIR"/"${BASENAME}".gz ] &amp;&amp; LIST="${LIST} ${BASENAME}.gz"
-  [ -f "$DIR"/"${BASENAME}".bz2 -o -L "$DIR"/"${BASENAME}".bz2 ] &amp;&amp; LIST="${LIST} ${BASENAME}.bz2"
+  GZ_FILE="$BASENAME".bz2
+  BZ_FILE="$BASENAME".bz2
 
   # Look for, and keep, the most recent one
-  LATEST=`(cd "$DIR"; ls -1rt $LIST | tail -1)`
-  for i in $LIST; do
+  LATEST=`(cd "$DIR"; ls -1rt "${BASENAME}" "${GZ_FILE}" "${BZ_FILE}" 2&gt;/dev/null | tail -1)`
+  for i in "${BASENAME}" "${GZ_FILE}".gz "${BZ_FILE}".bz2; do
     [ "$LATEST" != "$i" ] &amp;&amp; rm -f "$DIR"/"$i"
   done
@@ -344,10 +341,11 @@
 
       # Check if the file is already compressed with the specified method
-      BASE_FILE=`basename \`basename "$FILE" .bz2\` .gz`
+      BASE_FILE=`basename "$FILE" .gz`
+      BASE_FILE=`basename "$FILE" .bz2`
       if [ "${FILE}" = "${BASE_FILE}${COMP_SUF}" -a "foo${FORCE_OPT}" = "foo" ]; then continue; fi
 
       # If we have a symlink
       if [ -h "$FILE" ]; then
-        case $FILE in
+        case "$FILE" in
           *.bz2)
             EXT=bz2 ;;
@@ -359,10 +357,10 @@
 
         if [ ! "$EXT" = "none" ]; then
-          LINK=`ls -l $FILE | cut -d "&gt;" -f2 | tr -d " " | sed s/\.$EXT$//`
+          LINK=`ls -l "$FILE" | cut -d "&gt;" -f2 | tr -d " " | sed s/\.$EXT$//`
           NEWNAME=`echo "$FILE" | sed s/\.$EXT$//`
           mv "$FILE" "$NEWNAME"
           FILE="$NEWNAME"
         else
-          LINK=`ls -l $FILE | cut -d "&gt;" -f2 | tr -d " "`
+          LINK=`ls -l "$FILE" | cut -d "&gt;" -f2 | tr -d " "`
         fi
 
@@ -394,5 +392,5 @@
         # We do decompress first to re-compress with the selected
         # compression ratio later on...
-        case $FILE in
+        case "$FILE" in
           *.bz2)
             bunzip2 $FILE
@@ -423,5 +421,5 @@
         if [ -n "$HLINKS" ]; then
           for i in $HLINKS; do
-            NEWFILE=`echo $i | sed s/\.gz$// | sed s/\.bz2$//`
+            NEWFILE=`echo "$i" | sed s/\.gz$// | sed s/\.bz2$//`
             if [ "$LN_OPT" = "-S" ]; then
               # Make this hard-link a soft- one
@@ -439,5 +437,5 @@
         # Obviously, we shall never ever come here... :-(
         echo "Whaooo... \"${DIR}/${FILE}\" is neither a symlink nor a plain file. Please check:"
-        ls -l ${DIR}/${FILE}
+        ls -l "${DIR}/${FILE}"
         exit 1
       fi
Index: pst/sgml/docbook-dsssl/docbook-dsssl-config.xml
===================================================================
--- pst/sgml/docbook-dsssl/docbook-dsssl-config.xml	(revision a78534db7ffadc7d56c2e1fe296c4b6fa43beab1)
+++ pst/sgml/docbook-dsssl/docbook-dsssl-config.xml	(revision b614eb096ebc85a56ab65435807ac7d5d57fbdaf)
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
 <application>OpenJade</application> to convert the <acronym>BLFS</acronym> 
 Book from <acronym>XML</acronym> to <acronym>HTML</acronym>:
-<screen><userinput><command>ln -sf {your home directory}/BLFS/BOOK/blfs.dsl \
+<screen><userinput><command>ln -sf <replaceable>[your home directory]</replaceable>/BLFS/BOOK/blfs.dsl \
 /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-&docbook-dsssl-version;/html/</command></userinput></screen>
 </para>
Index: pst/sgml/sgml-dtd-3/sgml-dtd-3-config.xml
===================================================================
--- pst/sgml/sgml-dtd-3/sgml-dtd-3-config.xml	(revision a78534db7ffadc7d56c2e1fe296c4b6fa43beab1)
+++ pst/sgml/sgml-dtd-3/sgml-dtd-3-config.xml	(revision b614eb096ebc85a56ab65435807ac7d5d57fbdaf)
@@ -12,6 +12,5 @@
 <para>Using only the most current 3.x version of
 <application>DocBook <acronym>SGML</acronym> <acronym>DTD</acronym></application> requires the following:</para>
-<screen><userinput><command>cat &gt;&gt;
-/usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-&sgml-dtd-3-version;/catalog &lt;&lt; "EOF"</command>
+<screen><userinput><command>cat &gt;&gt; /usr/share/sgml/docbook/sgml-dtd-&sgml-dtd-3-version;/catalog &lt;&lt; "EOF"</command>
   -- Begin Single Major Version catalog changes --
 
