From: Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 08:15:44 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Change some wording in doc/intern.texi
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Change some wording in doc/intern.texi
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diff --git a/doc/intern.texi b/doc/intern.texi
index ba96b69a..52a458eb 100644
--- a/doc/intern.texi
+++ b/doc/intern.texi
@@ -114,8 +114,9 @@ The @code{uid} and @code{gid} fields are the numeric user and group
 not support numeric user or group @acronym{ID}s, these fields should
 be ignored.
 
-The @code{size} field is the size of the file in bytes; linked files
-are archived with this field specified as zero.
+The @code{size} field is the size of the file in bytes; for archive
+members that are symbolic or hard links to another file, this field
+is specified as zero.
 
 The @code{mtime} field represents the data modification time of the file at
 the time it was archived.  It represents the integer number of
@@ -126,7 +127,7 @@ the simple sum of all bytes in the header block.  Each 8-bit
 byte in the header is added to an unsigned integer, initialized to
 zero, the precision of which shall be no less than seventeen bits.
 When calculating the checksum, the @code{chksum} field is treated as
-if it were all blanks.
+if it were filled with spaces (ASCII 32).
 
 The @code{typeflag} field specifies the type of file archived.  If a
 particular implementation does not recognize or permit the specified