* doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Clarify the

	description of the tarname default.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-07-17  Russ Allbery  <rra@stanford.edu>
+
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (Initializing configure): Clarify the
+       description of the tarname default.
+
 2002-07-17  Andreas Buening  <andreas.buening@nexgo.de>
 
        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_FORK): Don't set

diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
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--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -1512,8 +1512,8 @@ the email to which users should send bug reports.  The package
 @var{tarname} differs from @var{package}: the latter designates the full
 package name (e.g., @samp{GNU Autoconf}), while the former is meant for
 distribution tar ball names (e.g., @samp{autoconf}).  It defaults to
-@var{package} once @samp{GNU } strip, lower cased, and all non
-alphanumeric and underscore characters mapped onto @samp{-}.
+@var{package} once @samp{GNU } strip, lower-cased, and all characters
+other than alphanumerics and underscores are changed to @samp{-}.
 
 It is preferable that these arguments be static, i.e., there should not
 be any shell computation, but they can be computed by M4.  The following