Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Early draft of Ethereal User's Guide

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:34:45 -0700
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 07:55:49PM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Anyway, see what you think.

The sections on building from source should probably say

	gunzip -c xxx-1.2.3.tar.gz | tar xfv -

rather than

	tar zxvf XXX-1.2.3.tar.gz

as not everybody necessarily has GNU tar installed.

Example 2.2 should now read

	gunzip -c libpcap-0.5.tar.gz | tar xfv -
	<much output removed>
	cd libpcap_0_5rel2

		...

as the current libpcap version is 0.5; I've updated the INSTALL file to
indicate that libpcap should be gotten from www.tcpdump.org rather than
from LBL, given that libpcap 0.5 and tcpdump 3.5 have been released.

(Yes, the directory name into which the tarball is unpacked is a bit
bogus - it should be "libpcap-0.5"; I think that will change at some
point in the future, although it might not change until the next libpcap
release.)