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author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2000-11-06 09:28:43 +0000 |
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committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2000-11-06 09:28:43 +0000 |
commit | 13a92d54102124404b31aa6f7fa82ab3ac7f4f4f (patch) | |
tree | 5d7fbfc0b56b9d1fb1e63ebfdd2e4acce07b0b30 /doc | |
parent | 82917a0672392db12f4cd72aacff29766d608c60 (diff) |
In Tethereal, when printing summary lines, print the fields specified in
the preferences file, don't just print a wired-in list of fields.
Always print the time stamp.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2573
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/tethereal.pod.template | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tethereal.pod.template b/doc/tethereal.pod.template index f683b07c38..7459f43ae8 100644 --- a/doc/tethereal.pod.template +++ b/doc/tethereal.pod.template @@ -50,13 +50,13 @@ of the packets it captures or reads; otherwise, it writes those packets to the file specified by that flag. When printing a decoded form of packets, B<Tethereal> prints, by -default, a summary line giving a time stamp for the packet if it's -reading a capture file (but not if it's printing packets as it captures -them), the source and destination address for the packet, the top-level -protocol for the packet that B<Tethereal> understands, and a summary of -the packet's contents for that protocol. If the B<-V> flag is -specified, it prints intead a protocol tree, showing all the fields of -all protocols in the packet. +default, a summary line containing the fields specified by the +preferences file (which are also the fields displayed in the packet list +pane in B<Ethereal>), although if it's printing packets as it captures +them, rather than printing packets from a saved capture file, it won't +print the "frame number" field. If the B<-V> flag is specified, it +prints intead a protocol tree, showing all the fields of all protocols +in the packet. When writing packets to a file, B<Tethereal>, by default, writes the file in B<libpcap> format, and writes all of the packets it sees to the |