Patch from Kent Robotti adding a bunch of needed docs!

 -Erik

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 <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 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"