Eric Andersen
537d165216
Update contact info.
2001-01-25 22:00:37 +00:00
Eric Andersen
c1b8f1224c
Apply a patch from Brent Priddy <brent.priddy@adtran.com> to add
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'id -n' support.
-Erik
2001-01-25 05:12:02 +00:00
Eric Andersen
8c5cb31e1b
Fix up insmod usage info to mention -L
2001-01-24 19:15:07 +00:00
Mark Whitley
a5b55ca8a9
- Added a section on avoiding static buffers, per mailing list discussions
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- Added a section on avoiding dangerous, overrun-prone string functions, per
mailing list comment by David Douthitt
- Added comment on how to search-and-replace in multiple files per (very old)
mailing list comment by Larry Doolittle.
2001-01-24 00:18:13 +00:00
Glenn L McGrath
fa0443216d
Add dpkg-deb documentation
2001-01-03 01:06:30 +00:00
Matt Kraai
004827d715
Update logger usage information.
2001-01-02 22:54:12 +00:00
Mark Whitley
3680c58084
Some corrections, some additions, some embellishments.
2000-12-20 22:35:12 +00:00
Mark Whitley
8eb5985f94
More spelling fixes from Larry Doolittle.
2000-12-19 19:44:35 +00:00
Mark Whitley
8a6b619c96
Added a paragraph from Larry Dolittle, made some more section headers.
2000-12-19 17:54:38 +00:00
Mark Whitley
eac2636513
New applet HOWTO. Written by Matt Kraai with some formating and additions by me.
2000-12-19 17:35:24 +00:00
Eric Andersen
0d2acb0ead
Doc update from Matt Kraai, better describing the init process.
2000-12-18 20:36:02 +00:00
Matt Kraai
8677d7b6ec
Only say mailing list once.
2000-12-15 15:41:03 +00:00
Eric Andersen
1b622ff5ac
Add in mkCDrec - make CD-ROM recovery project.
2000-12-14 15:43:57 +00:00
Matt Kraai
e3a94f7d08
Ran aspell.
2000-12-13 19:50:48 +00:00
Eric Andersen
4362200712
Website update for the release
2000-12-13 18:30:13 +00:00
Eric Andersen
d0fa0a12f1
Document gzip -d
2000-12-13 17:59:37 +00:00
Eric Andersen
20c2bdd7f2
Fix spelling error s/defaut/default/g
2000-12-11 19:39:25 +00:00
Eric Andersen
70d09ed1cf
Reverse logic so when network logging, it by default does not log locally.
2000-12-11 16:24:16 +00:00
Eric Andersen
5b5db38a7d
Patch from Matt Kraai to implement uniq -[cdu]
2000-12-09 16:37:53 +00:00
Eric Andersen
eb4218d0a4
Update inittab docs
2000-12-08 20:38:00 +00:00
Eric Andersen
bf2b8ae49a
Make no local logging a runtime option for network logging...
2000-12-08 19:52:01 +00:00
Eric Andersen
bfa54143f6
Ignore the newdocs as well
2000-12-06 23:12:43 +00:00
Eric Andersen
0730943b49
Moar Speling fickes frum Larry Doolittle
2000-11-29 22:12:19 +00:00
Mark Whitley
d58ff8731c
Re-organized some sections and added a whole new section on avoiding the
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preprocessor. Comments welcome.
2000-11-22 19:25:39 +00:00
Mark Whitley
5022d0e55f
Added AdTran to the list of products using Busybox.
2000-11-17 22:07:08 +00:00
Mark Whitley
9028e2c96a
Numerous spelling / grammar corrections from Larry Doolittle
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<ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>, as well as a few additions / clarifications.
2000-11-17 21:28:39 +00:00
Eric Andersen
337ec1bb32
Fix typo pointed out by Michael Renzmann <renzmann@gmx.de>
2000-11-17 17:23:16 +00:00
Eric Andersen
8045c08e1c
Oops. I kant tipe.
2000-11-14 22:57:46 +00:00
Eric Andersen
2aa1091130
Ulp. "expr" listed as a second "echo" (oops) -- thanks to David Douthitt
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for noticing....
2000-11-14 21:28:09 +00:00
Eric Andersen
6d5b73d183
Add in Zdisk
2000-11-14 21:12:39 +00:00
Eric Andersen
0d5835a767
Apply patch from "Orion Poplawski" <OPoplawski@cqg.com> to make
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hostname do "--file"
-Erik
2000-10-12 22:30:31 +00:00
Eric Andersen
8ce85ce4e3
Fix up the docs
2000-09-26 22:20:06 +00:00
Eric Andersen
bdcc6fbd95
update the docs
2000-09-26 06:15:12 +00:00
Eric Andersen
57f83fffd8
Doc update
2000-09-24 02:41:44 +00:00
Eric Andersen
6d66817b6b
update docs for xargs
2000-09-23 06:12:34 +00:00
Eric Andersen
5b17693f0a
Use minix xargs instead, and update docs accordingly
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-Erik
2000-09-22 20:22:28 +00:00
Eric Andersen
350b3f9236
Typo fix.
2000-09-21 02:06:35 +00:00
Eric Andersen
cff3fe3ae9
Added dos2unix, unix2dos, and unrpm.c thanks to robotti@metconnect.com.
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-Erik
2000-09-20 19:22:26 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
c9db2e8665
Updated to be in sync with the current sample inittab
2000-09-15 17:24:13 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
d2d3aa39ef
Fixed compliance with the DTD
2000-09-15 17:16:40 +00:00
John Beppu
2aee993118
+ credit markw@lineo.com for his contributions
2000-09-15 08:04:42 +00:00
Eric Andersen
b4c3c59a45
Add in BasicLinux by request
2000-09-13 23:06:41 +00:00
Matt Kraai
17c8851813
Fix more typos.
2000-09-06 03:59:49 +00:00
Matt Kraai
9dd79791c8
Fixed a grammatical error.
2000-09-06 00:50:51 +00:00
Eric Andersen
1b355ebba6
Added expr, from Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, with some fixups
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and docs added by me.
-Erik
2000-09-05 17:37:48 +00:00
Eric Andersen
fd50c3d2f9
Add in byld
2000-09-01 22:24:03 +00:00
Eric Andersen
18a1014c95
updated some usage info from a patch from robotti@metconnect.com
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-Erik
2000-09-01 16:12:57 +00:00
Mark Whitley
2368a387ed
Some additional tips and formatting changes.
2000-08-22 00:20:21 +00:00
Eric Andersen
e4c4d69c04
Fix a silly bug so it compiles up properly
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-Erik
2000-08-21 23:29:45 +00:00
Eric Andersen
918507edda
Added the 'rdate' command, thanks to Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>.
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I added the docs, and made behavior identical to the GNU version.
-Erik
2000-08-21 22:46:33 +00:00
Eric Andersen
a1f16bba72
Added getopt(1) from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
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-Erik
2000-08-21 22:02:34 +00:00
Eric Andersen
fa405d0cb2
Add in the "reset" command.
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-Erik
2000-08-21 21:18:52 +00:00
Eric Andersen
bb39a31e33
Minor link update
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-Erik
2000-08-11 18:13:21 +00:00
Eric Andersen
fdd5103348
Merge in two patches from Dave Cinege:
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the first is a cleanup of tar --exclude
the second changes mount so mtab works more as it should, and
also allows mount to use the traditional short form (i.e.
'mount / -o remount,rw' now works.
While inside tar, I changed it to use getopt...
-Erik
2000-08-02 18:48:26 +00:00
Mark Whitley
52681b48dc
Added a note in the "Tips and Pointer" section on the correct way to test for
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string equivalence with strcmp().
2000-07-25 20:30:00 +00:00
Mark Whitley
40bfc76385
First revision of the Busybox Style Guide and an accompanying .indent.pro
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file.
2000-07-24 22:36:06 +00:00
Eric Andersen
bf960f58e2
Added 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
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-Erik
2000-07-21 21:32:12 +00:00
Eric Andersen
ec8d60f0f8
Add in the LinuxMagic VPN Firewall
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-Erik
2000-07-21 17:22:19 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
0010ee45e3
Fixed usage info for "cut"
2000-07-21 15:10:57 +00:00
Eric Andersen
ced2cefcca
* syslogd can now log messages to a remote host -- patch thanks
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to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
-Erik
2000-07-20 23:41:24 +00:00
Eric Andersen
97426e082a
Changed verbiage.
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-Erik
2000-07-11 23:06:48 +00:00
Eric Andersen
8fbaeece53
Replaced projects with products/projects.
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-Erik
2000-07-11 23:05:38 +00:00
Eric Andersen
68fda241d2
Added the Kerbango Internet Radio to projects/products using BusyBox.
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-Erik
2000-07-11 23:03:40 +00:00
Eric Andersen
aec27bca98
Final updates for release.
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-Erik
2000-07-11 18:18:40 +00:00
Eric Andersen
61dc057183
Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can then be
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loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
-Erik
2000-07-11 17:29:36 +00:00
Matt Kraai
da9841efc1
Fix dead link.
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-Matt
2000-07-11 16:09:01 +00:00
Eric Andersen
877a71bbf0
Add in tinynet
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-Erik
2000-07-08 16:19:10 +00:00
Eric Andersen
9cf44e79aa
Doc updates to remove sfdisk.
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-Erik
2000-07-08 00:09:30 +00:00
Eric Andersen
3312b0b626
Web page update from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
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-Erik
2000-07-07 19:23:10 +00:00
Eric Andersen
2158092344
This patch finishes the cleanup of all the commands. It also cleans up
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the remaining chapters -- Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
-Erik
2000-07-07 19:07:47 +00:00
Eric Andersen
b9eb0233a9
Yet another busybox documentation update from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
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-Erik
2000-07-07 05:04:24 +00:00
Eric Andersen
e5cec4e3ac
More doc patches from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>.
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Thanks Matt!
-Erik
2000-07-06 19:59:22 +00:00
Eric Andersen
6f5e281479
DocBook documentation update from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
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-Erik
2000-07-06 16:58:45 +00:00
Eric Andersen
2086e3d679
Some cosmetic updates. Changed "OPTIONS" to "Options".
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-Erik
2000-07-04 22:17:01 +00:00
Eric Andersen
028fb625f5
More doc updates
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-Erik
2000-07-04 20:07:13 +00:00
Eric Andersen
5331025f79
A first pass at integrating the SGML docs into the Makefile.
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A first pass a cleaning up the current SGML (lots more cleanup
is needed though).
-Erik
2000-07-04 19:42:23 +00:00
Mark Whitley
83a949cb22
Just converted busybox.pod to busybox.sgml using the Pod::DocBook Perl module.
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The resulting file needs some massaging and once it gets presentable, I'll
edit the Makefile to use the SGML file as the "authoritative" file; the plan
here is to generate other file formats from the SGML.
2000-06-26 13:31:53 +00:00
Eric Andersen
1386e70210
Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
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Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
-Erik
2000-06-26 12:14:30 +00:00
Eric Andersen
4a971aef59
Minor web page update.
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-Erik
2000-06-22 01:27:11 +00:00
Eric Andersen
addc9c28ad
Document 'ln --'
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-Erik
2000-06-21 22:53:24 +00:00
Eric Andersen
766c012975
Web site updates.
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-Erik
2000-06-21 22:43:07 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
afa0662860
Documented "which"
2000-06-21 21:43:24 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
1a804e4b3c
Removed trailing spaces
2000-06-21 21:38:00 +00:00
Eric Andersen
f929641c51
Add in telnet docs.
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-Erik
2000-06-21 21:04:01 +00:00
Eric Andersen
feb47c024a
Add insmod docs
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-Erik
2000-06-21 21:03:13 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
f7a01951fb
Updated the list of supported commands
2000-06-21 20:25:07 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
7ac06a3ff1
Removed all vestiges of "math"
2000-06-21 20:17:29 +00:00
John Beppu
0021679b0d
+ added dc (aka the function formerly known as math)
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+ did all the housekeeping that this change requires.
2000-06-21 19:06:16 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
339b892313
Updated e-mail address of Pavel Roskin to proski@gnu.org
2000-06-20 00:11:07 +00:00
Eric Andersen
98cd53e86d
Ran it through a spell checker and fixed the spelling errors.
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-Erik
2000-06-16 19:56:44 +00:00
John Beppu
3c709b45b3
+ minor typo fix
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s/>/>/
2000-06-14 09:11:05 +00:00
Eric Andersen
2b6ab3cbf8
Add new apps md5sum uudecode uuencode, fix some minor formatting things.
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-Erik
2000-06-13 06:54:53 +00:00
John Beppu
44760d058c
+ updated docs to reflect math's filter capabilities.
2000-06-12 23:04:55 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
049b706591
My pod2man (perl-5.00503) complains if there is no newline after "Options:"
2000-06-07 21:19:49 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
da10ec0eaa
Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
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and argument checking
2000-06-07 21:08:25 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
0024abcbbc
Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing
2000-06-07 20:38:15 +00:00
Eric Andersen
a42982e8f5
* Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
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* Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
* Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
-Erik
2000-06-07 17:28:53 +00:00
Eric Andersen
815e904470
Fixed a bunch of stuff:
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* Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
* Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
* Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses.
* Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
* Implemented "rm -- <foo>"
updated docs accordingly.
-Erik
2000-06-06 16:15:23 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
82c0ac7e4f
Fix more spelling errors.
2000-06-05 20:19:47 +00:00
Eric Andersen
f2fffefe49
Fix spelling error
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-Erik
2000-06-05 17:23:06 +00:00
Eric Andersen
36fe1a30b1
Fix spelling errors.
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-Erik
2000-06-05 17:22:37 +00:00
Eric Andersen
ec480c49c2
oops. Don't commit autogenerated stuff.
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-Erik
2000-06-02 03:23:28 +00:00
Eric Andersen
86ab8a32bd
A number of additional fixed from Pavel Roskin, note some more bugs in the
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TODO list. Add Glenn to the Authors list for writing a mini ar for BusyBox,
which is now included.
-Erik
2000-06-02 03:21:42 +00:00
Eric Andersen
4062268bc7
Acknowledge contributions of Pavel Roskin, and fix doc building
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so the html goes into the website directory.
-Erik
2000-06-02 03:21:41 +00:00
Eric Andersen
08e9289ab3
Acknowledge contributions of Pavel Roskin, and fix doc building
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so the html goes into the website directory.
-Erik
2000-06-02 03:21:36 +00:00
Eric Andersen
1624813459
Point to the local BusyBox.html docs.
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-Erik
2000-06-02 03:20:22 +00:00
Eric Andersen
b83e0ed3a1
Forgot to checkin the busybox website graphics. Here they are...
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-Erik
2000-06-02 02:33:24 +00:00
Eric Andersen
b5966368d7
Minor doc fix. Added several bugs to the todo list. Fixed the way init
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scans /etc/inittab entries so that commands can contain ":"s.
-Erik
2000-05-31 20:04:38 +00:00
Eric Andersen
e511e7c116
Minor update to web page.
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-Erik
2000-05-25 00:18:59 +00:00
Erik Andersen
330fd2b576
More libc portability updates, add in the website (which has not been
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archived previously). Wrote 'which' during the meeting today.
-Erik
2000-05-19 05:35:19 +00:00
Erik Andersen
73c8c9cf9a
More doc updates
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-Erik
2000-05-13 05:36:13 +00:00
Erik Andersen
7ab9c7ee52
Lots of updates. Finished implementing BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP
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which lets you compile out most of the "--help" output, saving
up to 17k.
Renamed mnc to nc.
-Erik
2000-05-12 19:41:47 +00:00
Erik Andersen
ac130e1dca
Add suffix stripping support to basename
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-Erik
2000-05-10 05:00:31 +00:00
Erik Andersen
6c5f2c6021
Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
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Change umount "-f" to mean force, and actually use umount2.
Change umount "-l" to mean "Do not free loop device".
Updates docs accordingly.
-Erik
2000-05-05 19:49:33 +00:00
Erik Andersen
9b15e50835
Tell cvs to never checkin the resultant docs.
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-Erik
2000-05-03 03:25:43 +00:00
Erik Andersen
0a704e8ff6
Remove BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT (small, and should always be present)
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and fix documentation dependancy checks, so it is only built when
it should be built.
-Erik
2000-05-03 03:19:06 +00:00
Erik Andersen
a19bc64653
More formatting bugs fixed
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-Erik
2000-05-02 06:40:02 +00:00
Erik Andersen
e31c06608e
Bug fixes in the docs
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-Erik
2000-05-02 05:32:07 +00:00
Erik Andersen
3c1217cfad
Document tr change
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-Erik
2000-05-01 22:34:24 +00:00
Erik Andersen
4f3f757d56
Latest and greatest. Some effort at libc5 (aiming towards newlib)
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compatability.
-Erik
2000-04-28 00:18:56 +00:00
Erik Andersen
227a59b05d
Several more updates
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-Erik
2000-04-25 23:24:55 +00:00
John Beppu
f93a95de69
+ grep -v # yay!
2000-04-24 18:07:30 +00:00
Erik Andersen
e90f4045af
Some more updates and such...
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-Erik
2000-04-21 21:53:58 +00:00
Erik Andersen
cf8d38a3eb
Doc updates
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-Erik
2000-04-21 01:23:36 +00:00
Erik Andersen
1101d23604
Fix email address
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-Erik
2000-04-19 05:15:12 +00:00
Erik Andersen
eef658068b
Minor doc change
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-Erik
2000-04-19 05:12:02 +00:00
Erik Andersen
3fe7f9f20b
More minor updates to docs (and making apps behave as the docs
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suggest they should)
-Erik
2000-04-19 03:59:10 +00:00
Erik Andersen
a6c752201e
Updates
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-Erik
2000-04-18 00:00:52 +00:00
John Beppu
5a50def0f4
- removal of (stray|stealth) spaces
2000-04-17 17:46:46 +00:00
Erik Andersen
26702fe191
Bugfixes.
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-Erik
2000-04-17 16:44:46 +00:00
Erik Andersen
e5b6c7dd9c
More updates to the docs, and fixes to sync things with the docs.
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-Erik
2000-04-17 16:16:10 +00:00
John Beppu
4fd10fc73b
+ added John Lombardo to AUTHORS section
2000-04-17 05:13:59 +00:00
John Beppu
9057b6a918
+ wrap things in B<> to make pod2man happy
2000-04-16 10:22:28 +00:00
Erik Andersen
5e1189e187
More documentation updates, and minor fixes to make things sync
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up with the docs.
-Erik
2000-04-15 16:34:54 +00:00
Erik Andersen
95c1c1e05f
Fix a tar bug: tar removed leading '/'s for symlink targets.
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Fix a syslogd bug: Only the first sizeof(buffer) was read from the
/dev/log socket, causing (for most cases) only every other log item to be logged.
-Erik
2000-04-14 21:45:29 +00:00
John Beppu
50ed0676ad
+ minor whitespace oddities removed
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+ re-alphabetized AUTHORS section
+ added Id tag at bottom
2000-04-13 23:44:04 +00:00
Erik Andersen
9cf3bfa7c1
More doc updates for BusyBox, with fixes to apps for bugs revealed
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while trying to write docs . :-)
-Erik
2000-04-13 18:49:43 +00:00
John Beppu
08e7f75ba2
+ a comment on line 1 w/ suggested pod2man invocation:
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pod2man --center=Lineo --release="version 0.43" busybox.pod > busybox.1
2000-04-13 03:22:20 +00:00
John Beppu
f17792ca9b
+ formatting modifications to make pod2man(1p) happy.
2000-04-13 03:16:01 +00:00
Erik Andersen
62dc17a3b1
Some docs
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-Erik
2000-04-13 01:18:23 +00:00
Erik Andersen
91f3df3c45
Fixed a bug,
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-Erik
2000-02-10 22:58:40 +00:00
John Beppu
4581b4cdd9
foreach (@busybox_command) {
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put_help_message_in_busybox_pod($_);
}
2000-01-19 15:04:41 +00:00
John Beppu
08fe43d3f9
added a little more content.
2000-01-19 12:39:16 +00:00
John Beppu
46a4e76243
fleshed out a bit more... just wanted to put the current
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changes under version control.
2000-01-18 22:33:11 +00:00
John Beppu
3a1b6be7d8
the beginnings of a proper man page for busybox.
2000-01-18 15:45:59 +00:00
Erik Andersen
3163821967
Sync up busybox with the latest and greatest. This is not stuff for
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the Embedix release.
-Erik
2000-01-15 22:28:50 +00:00
Erik Andersen
05df239ed9
Bug fixes.
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-Erik
2000-01-13 04:43:48 +00:00
Erik Andersen
9b5c0b7611
More adjustments
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-Erik
2000-01-07 18:33:06 +00:00