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authorEric Andersen2003-07-05 07:52:35 +0000
committerEric Andersen2003-07-05 07:52:35 +0000
commit65e20a33c20314da5dd33d6e9e2ec529d835bbfb (patch)
tree87fcfc020d06542f1536aef31d3afb9d0dfb2a04
parent01c3d40f3c022abc08c14b96fe586a33fce081e8 (diff)
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Patch from Kent Robotti adding a bunch of needed docs!
-Erik
-rw-r--r--archival/Config.in4
-rw-r--r--coreutils/Config.in3
-rw-r--r--debianutils/Config.in14
-rw-r--r--editors/Config.in8
-rw-r--r--findutils/Config.in8
-rw-r--r--init/Config.in6
-rw-r--r--modutils/Config.in6
7 files changed, 28 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in
index fddcff4..709eee8 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 d2c3c64..2326128 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 210c43e..108cc53 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 b7135f3..83aee5a 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 <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 79358c6..cac11f7 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 a478e07..0316399 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 ae62d7f..a576e4b 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"