Changeset 2c094d6 for appendixa/man-desc.xml

Timestamp:

09/28/2002 09:08:29 PM (22 years ago)

Author:

Timothy Bauscher <timothy@…>

Branches:

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Children:

4d46e012

Parents:

f5cc1c17

Message:

Applied Bill Maltby's grammar patch. Changed $LFS to LFS where appropriate. Internal XML cleanup: removed double spacing where appropriate.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2138 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• appendixa/man-desc.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

appendixa/man-desc.xml

@@ -10 +10 @@
 
 <sect4><title>apropos</title>
-<para>apropos searches a set of database files containing short descriptions 
-of system commands for keywords and  displays the result on the standard 
+<para>apropos searches for keywords in a set of database files, containing
+short descriptions of system commands, and displays the result on the standard 
 output.</para></sect4>
 
@@ -17 +17 @@
 <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 
-line consists of the name of the page  and  a  short  description, 
-separated  by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of 
+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, 
+separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of 
 the NAME section of the manual page.</para></sect4>
 
@@ -32 +32 @@
 
 <sect4><title>whatis</title>
-<para>whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions 
-of system commands for keywords and displays the result on the standard 
+<para>
+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>