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authorSake Blok <sake@euronet.nl>2011-02-04 21:09:55 +0000
committerSake Blok <sake@euronet.nl>2011-02-04 21:09:55 +0000
commitb723ee91a05d4c27f54396859cf40be7aa95905e (patch)
tree7443535d2692f3b011d66d679f93e154ebd15615 /doc
parent8b6e2eac3df31d943b30339b64a69742cb060e80 (diff)
From Jason Masker (bug 5240):
` Allow editcap to chop from beginning of packet for decapsulation svn path=/trunk/; revision=35832
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/editcap.pod10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/editcap.pod b/doc/editcap.pod
index 7101ea7d00..bf699723b5 100644
--- a/doc/editcap.pod
+++ b/doc/editcap.pod
@@ -80,11 +80,13 @@ opened. The default is to use a single output file.
=item -C E<lt>choplenE<gt>
-Sets the chop length to use when writing the packet data.
-Each packet is chopped at the packet end by a few <choplen> bytes of data.
+Sets the chop length to use when writing the packet data. Each packet is
+chopped by a few <choplen> bytes of data. Positive values chop at the packet
+beginning while negative values chop at the packet end.
-This is useful in the rare case that the conversion between two file
-formats leaves some random bytes at the end of each packet.
+This is useful for chopping headers for decapsulation of an entire capture or
+in the rare case that the conversion between two file formats leaves some random
+bytes at the end of each packet.
=item -d