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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2006-07-09 22:45:48 +0000
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2006-07-09 22:45:48 +0000
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parent8b315480f1df953751fda12c58ed891862e03edc (diff)
Use L<> on all links.
Don't use anything on man page references - pod2man handles that. Don't refer to "the capture file format section" of the Wireshark man page, as there's no section explicitly labelled as such; just refer to the beginning of the DESCRIPTION section. svn path=/trunk/; revision=18694
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--- a/doc/mergecap.pod
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@@ -28,11 +28,12 @@ all of the packets in both input capture files to the output file.
B<Mergecap> is able to detect, read and write the same capture files that
are supported by B<Wireshark>.
-The input files don't need a specific filename extension, the file
+The input files don't need a specific filename extension; the file
format and an optional gzip compression will be automatically detected.
-The I<capture file format> section of I<wireshark(1)> or
-I<http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/wireshark.1.html>
-provides a detailed description.
+Near the beginning of the DESCRIPTION section of wireshark(1) or
+L<http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/wireshark.1.html>
+is a detailed description of the way B<Wireshark> handles this, which is
+the same way B<Mergecap> handles this.
B<Mergecap> can write the file in several output formats.
The B<-F> flag can be used to specify the format in which to write the
@@ -120,7 +121,7 @@ fddi>' is specified).
=head1 SEE ALSO
-I<tcpdump(8)>, I<pcap(3)>, I<wireshark(1)>, I<editcap(1)>
+tcpdump(8), pcap(3), wireshark(1), editcap(1)
=head1 NOTES
@@ -128,10 +129,10 @@ B<Mergecap> is based heavily upon B<editcap> by Richard Sharpe
<sharpe[AT]ns.aus.com> and Guy Harris <guy[AT]alum.mit.edu>.
B<Mergecap> is part of the B<Wireshark> distribution. The latest version
-of B<Wireshark> can be found at B<http://www.wireshark.org>.
+of B<Wireshark> can be found at L<http://www.wireshark.org>.
HTML versions of the Wireshark project man pages are available at:
-http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages
+L<http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages>.
=head1 AUTHORS