Larry Doolittle writes:

This is a bulk spelling fix patch against busybox-1.00-pre10.
If anyone gets a corrupted copy (and cares), let me know and
I will make alternate arrangements.

Erik - please apply.

Authors - please check that I didn't corrupt any meaning.

Package importers - see if any of these changes should be
passed to the upstream authors.

I glossed over lots of sloppy capitalizations, missing apostrophes,
mixed American/British spellings, and German-style compound words.

What is "pretect redefined for test" in cmdedit.c?

Good luck on the 1.00 release!

      - Larry

coreutils/cal.c

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static const char sep1752[] = {
 
 static int julian;
 
-/* leap year -- account for gregorian reformation in 1752 */
+/* leap year -- account for Gregorian reformation in 1752 */
 #define	leap_year(yr) \
 	((yr) <= 1752 ? !((yr) % 4) : \
 	(!((yr) % 4) && ((yr) % 100)) || !((yr) % 400))

coreutils/cmp.c

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
  *
  * Original version majorly reworked for SUSv3 compliance, bug fixes, and
  * size optimizations.  Changes include:
- * 1) Now correctly distingusishes between errors and actual file differences.
+ * 1) Now correctly distinguishes between errors and actual file differences.
  * 2) Proper handling of '-' args.
  * 3) Actual error checking of i/o.
  * 4) Accept SUSv3 -l option.  Note that we use the slightly nicer gnu format

coreutils/cut.c

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static int cmpfunc(const void *a, const void *b)
 /*
  * parse_lists() - parses a list and puts values into startpos and endpos.
  * valid list formats: N, N-, N-M, -M
- * more than one list can be seperated by commas
+ * more than one list can be separated by commas
  */
 static void parse_lists(char *lists)
 {
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static void parse_lists(char *lists)
 	char *junk;
 	int s = 0, e = 0;
 
-	/* take apart the lists, one by one (they are seperated with commas */
+	/* take apart the lists, one by one (they are separated with commas */
 	while ((ltok = strsep(&lists, ",")) != NULL) {
 
 		/* it's actually legal to pass an empty list */

coreutils/date.c

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 /* Input parsing code is always bulky - used heavy duty libc stuff as
    much as possible, missed out a lot of bounds checking */
 
-/* Default input handling to save suprising some people */
+/* Default input handling to save surprising some people */
 
 static struct tm *date_conv_time(struct tm *tm_time, const char *t_string)
 {

coreutils/df.c

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 /* Mar 16, 2003      Manuel Novoa III   (mjn3@codepoet.org)
  *
  * Size reduction.  Removed floating point dependency.  Added error checking
- * on output.  Output stats on 0-sized filesystems if specificly listed on
+ * on output.  Output stats on 0-sized filesystems if specifically listed on
  * the command line.  Properly round *-blocks, Used, and Available quantities.
  */
 

coreutils/echo.c

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 /* Mar 16, 2003      Manuel Novoa III   (mjn3@codepoet.org)
  *
- * Because of behavioral differences, implemented configureable SUSv3
+ * Because of behavioral differences, implemented configurable SUSv3
  * or 'fancy' gnu-ish behaviors.  Also, reduced size and fixed bugs.
  * 1) In handling '\c' escape, the previous version only suppressed the
  *     trailing newline.  SUSv3 specifies _no_ output after '\c'.

coreutils/env.c

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 /*
  * Modified by Vladimir Oleynik <andersen@codepoet.org> (C) 2003
- * - corretion "-" option usage
+ * - correct "-" option usage
  * - multiple "-u unsetenv" support
  * - GNU long option support
  * - save errno after exec failed before bb_perror_msg()

coreutils/expr.c

@@ -9,24 +9,24 @@
  * Copyright (c) 2000  Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>.
  * Aug 2003  Vladimir Oleynik - reduced 464 bytes.
  *
- * this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
- * the free software foundation; either version 2 of the license, or
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  * (at your option) any later version.
  *
- * this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of
- * merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. see the gnu
- * general public license for more details.
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ * General Public License for more details.
  *
- * you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license
- * along with this program; if not, write to the free software
- * foundation, inc., 59 temple place, suite 330, boston, ma 02111-1307 usa
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
  *
  */
 
 /* This program evaluates expressions.  Each token (operator, operand,
- * parenthesis) of the expression must be a seperate argument.  The
+ * parenthesis) of the expression must be a separate argument.  The
  * parser used is a reasonably general one, though any incarnation of
  * it is language-specific.  It is especially nice for expressions.
  *

coreutils/logname.c

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
  * is _not_ the same.  Erik apparently made this change almost 3 years
  * ago to avoid failing when no utmp was available.  However, the
  * correct course of action wrt SUSv3 for a failing getlogin() is
- * a dianostic message and an error return.
+ * a diagnostic message and an error return.
  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>

coreutils/md5_sha1_sum.c

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #define FLAG_CHECK	2
 #define FLAG_WARN	4
 
-/* This might be usefull elsewhere */
+/* This might be useful elsewhere */
 static unsigned char *hash_bin_to_hex(unsigned char *hash_value,
 									  unsigned char hash_length)
 {