Many minor edits and clarifications to the documentation, including comments about the exit status of a few commands

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\section and and - Conditionally execute a command
\subsection and-synopsis Synopsis
<tt>COMMAND1; and COMMAND2</tt>
<tt>COMMAND1; and COMMAND2</tt>
\subsection and-description Description
The \c and builtin is used to execute a command if the current exit status (as set by the last previous command) is zero
The \c and builtin is used to execute a command if the current exit
status (as set by the last previous command) is zero
The and command does not change the current exit status.
\subsection and-example Example
The following code runs the \c make command to build a program, and if it succeeds, it runs <tt>make install</tt>, which installs the program.
The following code runs the \c make command to build a program, if the
build succceds, the program is installed. If either step fails,
<tt>make clean</tt> is run, which removes the files created by the
build process
<pre>
make; and make install
make; and make install; or make clean
</pre>