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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ that is what this chapter is all about.
<para>
Your Slackware Linux system comes with lots of built-in documentation
for nearly every installed application. Perhaps the most common method
-of reading system documentation is by using the
+of reading system documentation is
<application>man</application>(1). <application>man</application>
(short for manual) will bring up the included man-page for any
application, system call, configuration file, or library you tell it
@@ -279,7 +279,8 @@ unless the first two already existed, as you saw in the example.
<para>
Removing a file is as easy as creating one. The
-<application>rm</application>(1) will remove a file (assuming of course
+<application>rm</application>(1) command will remove a file
+(assuming of course
that you have permission to do this). There are a few very common
arguments to <application>rm</application>. The first is
<arg>-f</arg> and is used to force the removal of a file
@@ -342,8 +343,7 @@ order to deal with directories.
</para>
<screen><prompt>darkstar:~$ </prompt><userinput>zip -r /tmp/home.zip /home</userinput>
-<prompt>darkstar:~$ </prompt><userinput>zip /tmp/large_file.zip
-/tmp/large_file</userinput></screen>
+<prompt>darkstar:~$ </prompt><userinput>zip /tmp/large_file.zip /tmp/large_file</userinput></screen>
<para>
The order of the arguments is very important. The first filename must
@@ -423,8 +423,8 @@ One alternative to <application>gzip</application> is the
almost the exact same way. The advantage to
<application>bzip2</application> is that it boasts greater compression
strength. Unfortunately, achieving that greater compression is a slow
-process, so <application>bzip2</application> takes longer to run than
-other alternatives.
+and CPU-intensive process, so <application>bzip2</application>
+typicall takes much longer to run than other alternatives.
</para>
</section>