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Adding some markup and doing miscellaneous shuffles.

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    44<title>Creating devices</title>
    55
    6 <para>Please note that unpacking the MAKEDEV-&makedev-version;.bz2 file
    7 doesn't create a directory for you to <userinput>cd</userinput> into, as
    8 the file only contains a single shell script.</para>
     6<para>Note that unpacking the <filename>MAKEDEV-&makedev-version;.bz2</filename>
     7file doesn't create a directory for you to <userinput>cd</userinput> into, as
     8the file contains only a shell script.</para>
    99
    10 <para>Install the MAKEDEV script:</para>
     10<para>Install the <userinput>MAKEDEV</userinput> script:</para>
    1111
    1212<screen><userinput>bzcat MAKEDEV-&makedev-version;.bz2 &gt; /dev/MAKEDEV
    … …  
    1818./MAKEDEV -v generic-nopty</userinput></screen>
    1919
    20 <para>The meaning of the option:</para>
     20<para>The meaning of the arguments:</para>
    2121
    2222<itemizedlist>
    23 <listitem><para><userinput>-v generic-nopty</userinput>: The
    24 <userinput>-v</userinput> parameter tells the MAKEDEV script to run in verbose
    25 mode. The <userinput>generic-nopty</userinput> parameter instructs MAKEDEV to
    26 create a generic selection of commonly used device special files, except for the
    27 ptyXX and ttyXX range of files. We don't need those files because we are going
    28 to use Unix98 PTYs via the <emphasis>devpts</emphasis> file
    29 system.</para></listitem>
     23<listitem><para><userinput>-v</userinput>: This tells the script to run in
     24verbose mode.</para></listitem>
     25
     26<listitem><para><userinput>generic-nopty</userinput>: This instructs
     27<userinput>MAKEDEV</userinput> to create a generic selection of commonly used
     28device special files, except for the ptyXX and ttyXX range of files. We don't
     29need those files because we are going to use Unix98 PTYs via the
     30<emphasis>devpts</emphasis> file system.</para></listitem>
    3031</itemizedlist>
    3132
    32 <para>If a device you need is missing, try running
    33 <userinput>./MAKEDEV -v &lt;device&gt;</userinput>. Alternatively, you may
    34 create devices via the <emphasis>mknod</emphasis> program. Please refer to
    35 the man and info pages of <emphasis>mknod</emphasis> if you need more
     33<para>If it turns out that some special device <filename>zzz</filename> that
     34you need is missing, try running <userinput>./MAKEDEV -v zzz</userinput>.
     35Alternatively, you may create devices via the <userinput>mknod</userinput>
     36program. Please refer to its man and info pages if you need more
    3637information.</para>
    3738
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