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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2000-05-25 09:00:24 +0000
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2000-05-25 09:00:24 +0000
commit8af330852d2b00e0b65470dacea4eba20c5c1418 (patch)
tree478701f3e502f55a478b5f216eecf2025695c99d /doc
parent99efdc9fba37a7498e25e96dc4f3f4515852a5a4 (diff)
Support for reading compressed Sniffer files, from Tim Farley, Joerg
Mayer, and yours truly. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2002
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/editcap.pod10
-rw-r--r--doc/ethereal.pod.template14
-rw-r--r--doc/tethereal.pod.template20
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/doc/editcap.pod b/doc/editcap.pod
index 476460a628..41dddebdff 100644
--- a/doc/editcap.pod
+++ b/doc/editcap.pod
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ S<[ I<record#> ... ]>
=head1 DESCRIPTION
B<Editcap> is a program that reads a saved capture file and writes some
-or all of the packets in that capture file to another capture file.
-B<Editcap> knows how to read B<libpcap>
-capture files, including those of B<tcpdump>. In addition, B<Editcap> can
-read capture files from B<snoop> (including B<Shomiti>) and B<atmsnoop>,
-B<LanAlyzer>, uncompressed B<Sniffer>, Microsoft B<Network Monitor>,
+or all of the packets in that capture file to another capture file.
+B<Editcap> knows how to read B<libpcap> capture files, including those
+of B<tcpdump>. In addition, B<Editcap> can read capture files from
+B<snoop> (including B<Shomiti>) and B<atmsnoop>, B<LanAlyzer>,
+B<Sniffer> (compressed or uncompressed), Microsoft B<Network Monitor>,
AIX's B<iptrace>, B<NetXray>, B<Sniffer Pro>, B<RADCOM>'s WAN/LAN
analyzer, B<Lucent/Ascend> router debug output, HP-UX's B<nettl>, and
the dump output from B<Toshiba's> ISDN routers. There is no need to
diff --git a/doc/ethereal.pod.template b/doc/ethereal.pod.template
index 2465837075..1256db54e5 100644
--- a/doc/ethereal.pod.template
+++ b/doc/ethereal.pod.template
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ interactively browse packet data from a live network or from a
previously saved capture file. B<Ethereal> knows how to read B<libpcap>
capture files, including those of B<tcpdump>. In addition, B<Ethereal>
can read capture files from B<snoop> (including B<Shomiti>) and
-B<atmsnoop>, B<LanAlyzer>, uncompressed B<Sniffer>, Microsoft B<Network
-Monitor>, AIX's B<iptrace>, B<NetXray>, B<Sniffer Pro>, B<RADCOM>'s
-WAN/LAN analyzer, B<Lucent/Ascend> router debug output, HP-UX's
-B<nettl>, the dump output from B<Toshiba's> ISDN routers, and
-B<i4btrace> from the ISDN4BSD project. There is no need to tell
-B<Ethereal> what type of file you are reading; it will determine the
-file type by itself. B<Ethereal> is also capable of reading any of
+B<atmsnoop>, B<LanAlyzer>, B<Sniffer> (compressed or uncompressed),
+Microsoft B<Network Monitor>, AIX's B<iptrace>, B<NetXray>, B<Sniffer
+Pro>, B<RADCOM>'s WAN/LAN analyzer, B<Lucent/Ascend> router debug
+output, HP-UX's B<nettl>, the dump output from B<Toshiba's> ISDN
+routers, and B<i4btrace> from the ISDN4BSD project. There is no need to
+tell B<Ethereal> what type of file you are reading; it will determine
+the file type by itself. B<Ethereal> is also capable of reading any of
these file formats if they are compressed using gzip. B<Ethereal>
recognizes this directly from the file; the '.gz' extension is not
required for this purpose.
diff --git a/doc/tethereal.pod.template b/doc/tethereal.pod.template
index 5cb93de1a0..19649e5581 100644
--- a/doc/tethereal.pod.template
+++ b/doc/tethereal.pod.template
@@ -31,16 +31,16 @@ capture file, either printing a decoded form of those packets to the
standard output or writing the packets to a file. B<Tethereal> knows
how to read B<libpcap> capture files, including those of B<tcpdump>. In
addition, B<Tethereal> can read capture files from B<snoop> (including
-B<Shomiti>) and B<atmsnoop>, B<LanAlyzer>, uncompressed B<Sniffer>,
-Microsoft B<Network Monitor>, AIX's B<iptrace>, B<NetXray>, B<Sniffer
-Pro>, B<RADCOM>'s WAN/LAN analyzer, B<Lucent/Ascend> router debug
-output, HP-UX's B<nettl>, the dump output from B<Toshiba's> ISDN
-routers, and B<i4btrace> from the ISDN4BSD project. There is no need to
-tell B<Tethereal> what type of file you are reading; it will determine
-the file type by itself. B<Tethereal> is also capable of reading any of
-these file formats if they are compressed using gzip. B<Tethereal>
-recognizes this directly from the file; the '.gz' extension is not
-required for this purpose.
+B<Shomiti>) and B<atmsnoop>, B<LanAlyzer>, B<Sniffer> (compressed or
+uncompressed), Microsoft B<Network Monitor>, AIX's B<iptrace>,
+B<NetXray>, B<Sniffer Pro>, B<RADCOM>'s WAN/LAN analyzer,
+B<Lucent/Ascend> router debug output, HP-UX's B<nettl>, the dump output
+from B<Toshiba's> ISDN routers, and B<i4btrace> from the ISDN4BSD
+project. There is no need to tell B<Tethereal> what type of file you
+are reading; it will determine the file type by itself. B<Tethereal> is
+also capable of reading any of these file formats if they are compressed
+using gzip. B<Tethereal> recognizes this directly from the file; the
+'.gz' extension is not required for this purpose.
If the B<-w> flag is not specified, B<Tethereal> prints a decoded form
of the packets it captures or reads; otherwise, it writes those packets