Patch from Kent Robotti adding a bunch of needed docs!

 -Erik

diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in
index fddcff4621a03f99b9ce1d6cb147ea8cd7e1adef..709eee8976294678637446ff8468b7e2d061c608 100644 (file)
--- a/archival/Config.in
+++ b/archival/Config.in
@@ -206,8 +206,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_TAR
        help
-        With this option busybox supports the GNU long filename
-         and linkanmes.
+        With this option busybox supports GNU long filenames and 
+        linknames.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_UNARCHIVE_TAPE
        bool "  Enable tape drive support"

diff --git a/coreutils/Config.in b/coreutils/Config.in
index d2c3c6431fc207c6ff4cfc48165e7d98f9b275e5..2326128778a9cd9d58b9ff9e20893c7db6096273 100644 (file)
--- a/coreutils/Config.in
+++ b/coreutils/Config.in
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_DATE_ISOFMT
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_DATE
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Enable option (-I) to output an ISO-8601 compliant
+         date/time string.
 
 config CONFIG_DD
        bool "dd"

diff --git a/debianutils/Config.in b/debianutils/Config.in
index 210c43e795b1e664ae15aff22d557fc6f108aaf1..108cc5388537bebb4fcda7b1decfec0efdc70b11 100644 (file)
--- a/debianutils/Config.in
+++ b/debianutils/Config.in
@@ -9,25 +9,26 @@ config CONFIG_MKTEMP
        bool "mktemp"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         mktemp is used to create unique temporary files
 
 config CONFIG_READLINK
        bool "readlink"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         This program reads a symbolic link and returns the name
+         of the file it points to
 
 config CONFIG_RUN_PARTS
        bool "run-parts"
        default n
        help
-         run-parts is an utility designed to run all the scripts in a directory.
+         run-parts is a utility designed to run all the scripts in a directory.
 
          It is useful to set up a directory like cron.daily, where you need to
          execute all the scripts in that directory.
 
-         This implementation of run-parts doesn't accept long options, and
-         some features (like report mode) aren't implemented.
+         This implementation of run-parts does not accept long options, and
+         some features (such as report mode) are not implemented.
 
          Unless you know that run-parts is used in some of your scripts
          you can safely say N here.
@@ -36,7 +37,8 @@ config CONFIG_WHICH
        bool "which"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         which is used to find programs in your PATH and
+         print out their pathnames.
 
 endmenu
 

diff --git a/editors/Config.in b/editors/Config.in
index b7135f39325a35f3793c51df4fb92c3928ebd4c6..83aee5a8e58b6bb3db77ec0341abc893b5784897 100644 (file)
--- a/editors/Config.in
+++ b/editors/Config.in
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ config CONFIG_SED
        bool "sed"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         sed is used to perform text transformations on a file
+         or input from a pipeline.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_SED_EMBEDED_NEWLINE
        bool " Embeded newline (EXPERIMENTAL)"
@@ -43,7 +44,10 @@ config CONFIG_VI
        bool "vi"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         'vi' is a text editor.  More specifically, it is the One True
+         text editor <grin>.  It does, however, have a rather steep 
+         learning curve.  If you are not already comfortable with 'vi'
+         you may wish to use something else.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_VI_COLON
        bool "  Enable \":\" colon commands (no \"ex\" mode)"

diff --git a/findutils/Config.in b/findutils/Config.in
index 79358c6558f7e2811d127c40f1746c6bd094de4e..cac11f77badd7db862c8e6ef01eac3f06c1a753c 100644 (file)
--- a/findutils/Config.in
+++ b/findutils/Config.in
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config CONFIG_FIND
        bool "find"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         find is used to search your system to find specified files.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_FIND_MTIME
        bool "  Enable modified time matching (-mtime) option"
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ config CONFIG_GREP
        bool "grep"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         grep is used to search files for a specified pattern.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS
        bool "  Support extended regular expressions (egrep & grep -E)"
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ config CONFIG_XARGS
        bool "xargs"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
-
+         xargs is used to execute a specified command on
+         every item from standard input.  
 
 endmenu
 

diff --git a/init/Config.in b/init/Config.in
index a478e07c86c8d4577392c83e736e41263908e7aa..0316399e6406ad0390a49b06aa6b50f19a0e41d5 100644 (file)
--- a/init/Config.in
+++ b/init/Config.in
@@ -9,21 +9,21 @@ config CONFIG_INIT
        bool "init"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         init is the first program run when the system boots.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_INITTAB
        bool "  Support reading an inittab file?"
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_INIT
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Allow init to read an inittab file when the system boot.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_INITRD
        bool "  Support running init from within an initrd?"
        default y
        depends on CONFIG_INIT
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         Allow init to be called from an initrd as linuxrc.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_INIT_COREDUMPS
        bool "  Support dumping core for child processes (debugging only)?"

diff --git a/modutils/Config.in b/modutils/Config.in
index ae62d7fcdd754bead5e0a47a1c0ffe8a60939268..a576e4bbdd7ea951e345e79e99c118059b7b2aa3 100644 (file)
--- a/modutils/Config.in
+++ b/modutils/Config.in
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config CONFIG_INSMOD
        bool "insmod"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+       insmod is used to load specified modules in the running kernel.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_OLD_MODULE_INTERFACE
        bool "  Support older (pre 2.1) Linux kernels"
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ config CONFIG_LSMOD
        bool "lsmod"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         lsmod is used to display a list of loaded modules.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_QUERY_MODULE_INTERFACE
        bool "  Support lsmod query_module interface (add 638 bytes)"
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ config CONFIG_RMMOD
        bool "rmmod"
        default n
        help
-         Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+         rmmod is used to unload specified modules from the kernel.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_CHECK_TAINTED_MODULE
        bool "Support tainted module checking with new kernels"