Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] I've checked in "tethereal"

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From: "Gilbert Ramirez Jr." <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 09:10:27 -0500
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 11:22:04PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> ...complete with man page (which contains the same lengthy description
> of display filter stuff - although I call them "read filters" in the
> Tethereal man page - as the Ethereal man page).
> 
> Those who want a tty-oriented, i.e. snoop/tcpdump-like, capture and
> display program, and who prefer snoop to tcpdump, might like it.  (Its
> output formats are snoop-like, and, like snoop, when it's doing a live
> capture it displays a count of packets captured.  I think you can guess

I always liked that feature of snoop. With tcpdump you have no idea
how many packets you've captured when capturing to a file with '-w'

--gilbert