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environ.7: Wording fixes 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" Modified Wed Jan 24 06:37:24 2001 by Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
.\" Modified Thu Dec 13 23:53:27 2001 by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
.\"
.TH ENVIRON 7 2001-12-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH ENVIRON 7 2009-07-25 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
environ \- user environment
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ environ \- user environment
.SH DESCRIPTION
The variable
.I environ
points to an array of strings called the "environment".
points to an array of pointers to strings called the "environment".
(This variable must be declared in the user program,
but is declared in the header file
.I <unistd.h>
@ -52,7 +52,9 @@ was defined.)
This array of strings is made available to the process by the
.BR exec (3)
call that started the process.
By convention these strings
By convention the strings in
.I environ
have the form "\fIname\fP\fB=\fP\fIvalue\fP".
Common examples are:
.TP