From 65e20a33c20314da5dd33d6e9e2ec529d835bbfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Andersen Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 07:52:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Patch from Kent Robotti adding a bunch of needed docs! -Erik --- archival/Config.in | 4 ++-- coreutils/Config.in | 3 ++- debianutils/Config.in | 14 ++++++++------ editors/Config.in | 8 ++++++-- findutils/Config.in | 8 ++++---- init/Config.in | 6 +++--- modutils/Config.in | 6 +++--- 7 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in index fddcff462..709eee897 100644 --- 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 d2c3c6431..232612877 100644 --- 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 210c43e79..108cc5388 100644 --- 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 b7135f393..83aee5a8e 100644 --- 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 . 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 79358c655..cac11f77b 100644 --- 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 a478e07c8..0316399e6 100644 --- 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 ae62d7fcd..a576e4bbd 100644 --- 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" -- 2.25.1