Patch from Kent Robotti adding a bunch of menuconfig help

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in
index cc65b6db4..fddcff462 100644
--- a/archival/Config.in
+++ b/archival/Config.in
@@ -120,20 +120,25 @@ config CONFIG_GUNZIP
 	bool "gunzip"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	 gunzip is used to decompress archives created by gzip.
+	 You can use the `-t' option to test the integrity of
+	 an archive, without decompressing it.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_GUNZIP_UNCOMPRESS
 	bool "  Uncompress support"
 	default n
 	depends on CONFIG_GUNZIP
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	 If you want gunzip to have the ability to decompress
+	 archives created by the program compress (not much
+	 used anymore).
 
 config CONFIG_GZIP
 	bool "gzip"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	 gzip is used to compress files.
+	 It's probably the most used UNIX compression program.
 
 config CONFIG_RPM2CPIO
 	bool "rpm2cpio"
@@ -151,36 +156,41 @@ config CONFIG_TAR
 	bool "tar"
 	default n
 	help
-	  tar has at least 512 bytes of overheads for every stored file.
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	 tar is an archiving program. It's commonly used with gzip to
+	 create compressed archives. It's probably the most used
+	 UNIX archive program.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_CREATE
 	bool "  Enable archive creation"
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_TAR
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	 If you enable this option you'll be able to create
+	 tar archives using the `-c' option.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_BZIP2
 	bool "  Enable -j option to handle .tar.bz2 files"
 	default n
 	depends on CONFIG_TAR
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	 If you enable this option you'll be able to extract
+	 archives compressed with bzip2.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_EXCLUDE
 	bool "  Enable -X and --exclude options (exclude files)"
 	default n
 	depends on CONFIG_TAR
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	 If you enable this option you'll be able to specify
+	 a list of files to exclude from an archive.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP
 	bool "  Enable -z option"
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_TAR
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	 If you enable this option tar will be able to call gzip,
+	 when creating or extracting tar gziped archives.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY
 	bool "  Enable support for old tar header format"
@@ -196,7 +206,7 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS
 	default y
 	depends on CONFIG_TAR
 	help
-	  With this option usybox supports the GNU long filename
+	 With this option busybox supports the GNU long filename
 	  and linkanmes.
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_UNARCHIVE_TAPE
@@ -210,12 +220,17 @@ config CONFIG_UNCOMPRESS
 	bool "uncompress"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	 uncompress is used to decompress archives created by compress.
+	 Not much used anymore, replaced by gzip/gunzip.
 
 config CONFIG_UNZIP
 	bool "unzip"
 	default n
 	help
-	  Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+	 unzip will list or extract files from a ZIP archive,
+	 commonly found on DOS/WIN systems. The default behavior
+	 (with no options) is to extract the archive into the
+	 current directory. Use the `-d' option to extract to a
+	 directory of your choice.
 
 endmenu