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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 |