Some additional description based on a patch from Terje Kvernes

diff --git a/miscutils/Config.in b/miscutils/Config.in
index fbdcbcc7b65116c3011859cec7ac3fec0d1943f5..b4a3475de78bbf571b331b417b0105ba0a4a6bb6 100644 (file)
--- a/miscutils/Config.in
+++ b/miscutils/Config.in
@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ config CONFIG_DUTMP
        default n
        help
          'dutmp' is a utility used by the Linux Router Project (as far as I
-         know nobody else uses it).  It dumps the contents of the utmp file in
-         a format that can be parsed by shell scripts.
+         know nobody else uses it).  It dumps the contents of the utmp file to
+         STDOUT with each field seperated by a colon.  IP addresses are are
+         given in hex in native byte order.  It is intended that this format
+         can then be parsed by shell scripts.
 
 config CONFIG_HDPARM
        bool "hdparm"
@@ -131,8 +133,8 @@ config CONFIG_WATCHDOG
          device drivers.  It opens the specified watchdog device special file
          and periodically writes a magic character to the device.  If the
          watchdog applet ever fails to write the magic character within a
-         certain amount of time, the watchdog device assumes that means the 
-         system has hung, and it will therefore cause the hardware to reboot.
+         certain amount of time, the watchdog device assumes the system has
+         hung, and will cause the hardware to reboot.
 
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