Fix typos in the docs

diff --git a/doc/sparse.texi b/doc/sparse.texi
index 84fe2b0c53fb2fb53a517fe4d9442dd75f919a08..c8c8eeab718642ccf5faedf9dbf27390d509d26e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/sparse.texi
+++ b/doc/sparse.texi
@@ -218,12 +218,12 @@ The real name of the sparse file is stored in the variable
 variable @code{GNU.sparse.realsize}.
 
 The sparse map itself is stored in the file data block, preceding the actual
-file data.  It consists of a series of octal numbers of arbitrary length, delimited
+file data.  It consists of a series of decimal numbers delimited
 by newlines. The map is padded with nulls to the nearest block boundary.
 
-The first number gives the number of entries in the map. Following are map entries,
-each one consisting of two numbers giving the offset and size of the
-data block it describes.
+The first number gives the number of entries in the map. Following are
+map entries, each one consisting of two numbers giving the offset and
+size of the data block it describes.
 
 The format is designed in such a way that non-posix aware @command{tar}s and @command{tar}s not
 supporting @code{GNU.sparse.*} keywords will extract each sparse file

diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi
index ce8508f523a8e62e0ef8f3b3b592d7c6b64f2871..a56b9fbbbf0dc0c72ccf1f0405ffe738491f1b88 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/tar.texi
+++ b/doc/tar.texi
@@ -5477,7 +5477,7 @@ reproducible archives given a common timestamp for generated files
 while still retaining the original timestamps of untouched files.
 
 @smallexample
-$ @kbd{tar -c -f archive.tar --clamp-mtime --mtime=@atchar{}$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH .}
+$ @kbd{tar -c -f archive.tar --clamp-mtime --mtime=@@$SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH .}
 @end smallexample
 
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