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

util-linux/fdisk.c

@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ check_aix_label( void )
  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
  *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
- *    must display the following acknowledgement:
+ *    must display the following acknowledgment:
  *      This product includes software developed by the University of
  *      California, Berkeley and its contributors.
  * 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors

util-linux/fsck_minix.c

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  */
 
 /*
- * 09.11.91  -  made the first rudimetary functions
+ * 09.11.91  -  made the first rudimentary functions
  *
  * 10.11.91  -  updated, does checking, no repairs yet.
  *		Sent out to the mailing-list for testing.
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
  *             (Russell King).  He made them for ARM.  It would seem
  *	       that the ARM is powerful enough to do this in C whereas
  *             i386 and m64k must use assembly to get it fast >:-)
- *	       This should make minix fsck systemindependent.
+ *	       This should make minix fsck system-independent.
  *	       (janl@math.uio.no, Nicolai Langfeldt)
  *
  * 04.11.96  - Added minor fixes from Andreas Schwab to avoid compiler
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
  * unless you can be sure nobody is writing to it (and remember that the
  * kernel can write to it when it searches for files).
  *
- * Usuage: fsck [-larvsm] device
+ * Usage: fsck [-larvsm] device
  *	-l for a listing of all the filenames
  *	-a for automatic repairs (not implemented)
  *	-r for repairs (interactive) (not implemented)

util-linux/getopt.c

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
  *     <misiek@misiek.eu.org>)
  * Ported to Busybox - Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
  *  Removed --version/-V and --help/-h in
- *  Removed prase_error(), using bb_error_msg() from Busybox instead
+ *  Removed parse_error(), using bb_error_msg() from Busybox instead
  *  Replaced our_malloc with xmalloc and our_realloc with xrealloc
  *
  */
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ const char *normalize(const char *arg)
                 return BUFFER;
         }
 
-        /* Each character in arg may take upto four characters in the result:
+        /* Each character in arg may take up to four characters in the result:
            For a quote we need a closing quote, a backslash, a quote and an
            opening quote! We need also the global opening and closing quote,
            and one extra character for '\0'. */
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ void set_shell(const char *new_shell)
 
 
 /* Exit codes:
- *   0) No errors, succesful operation.
+ *   0) No errors, successful operation.
  *   1) getopt(3) returned an error.
  *   2) A problem with parameter parsing for getopt(1).
  *   3) Internal error, out of memory

util-linux/hwclock.c

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include "busybox.h"
 
-/* Copied from linux/rtc.h to eliminate the kernel dependancy */
+/* Copied from linux/rtc.h to eliminate the kernel dependency */
 struct linux_rtc_time {
 	int tm_sec;
 	int tm_min;

util-linux/mkfs_minix.c

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
  *
  * Usage:  mkfs [-c | -l filename ] [-v] [-nXX] [-iXX] device [size-in-blocks]
  *
- *	-c for readablility checking (SLOW!)
+ *	-c for readability checking (SLOW!)
  *      -l for getting a list of bad blocks from a file.
  *	-n for namelength (currently the kernel only uses 14 or 30)
  *	-i for number of inodes
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ static inline void setup_tables(void)
 
 /*
  * Perform a test of a block; return the number of
- * blocks readable/writeable.
+ * blocks readable/writable.
  */
 static inline long do_check(char *buffer, int try, unsigned int current_block)
 {

util-linux/mount.c

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
  *              major adjustments to option parsing, and some serious
  *              dieting all around.
  *
- * 1999-11-06	mtab suppport is back - andersee
+ * 1999-11-06	mtab support is back - andersee
  *
  * 2000-01-12   Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, Borrowed utils-linux's
  *              mount to add loop support.