On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:27:08PM -0900, James A. Crippen wrote:
> May I suggest the following minor changes to the manpage Synopsis section
> for tethereal? (Haven't looked at ethereal's page yet.)
It could use similar changes.
> Change
>
> ... [ -f filter expression ] ... [ -R filter expression ] ... [ filter
> expression ]
>
> to
>
> ... [ -f capture filter expression ] ... [ -R read filter expression ]
> ... [ capture filter expression ]
...except that whether the last of those is a capture filter or a
display filter depends on whether you specified a "-r" flag or not, i.e.
whether you're doing a live capture or reading a capture file.
> which would make it more obvious that the default is a capture filter and
> not a read filter,
But that's the "default" only if no "-r" flag is specified; capturing
rather than reading a capture file is the default, but just calling the
command-line arguments "capture filter expression" might lead one to
believe that it's *always* a capture filter expression, which it isn't.
I've checked in changes to the Ethereal and Tethereal man pages, except
that
1) I call the argument to "-R" a "display filter expression"
rather than a "read filter expression", as the document
refers to that type of filter as a display filter when it
discusses the syntax;
2) it just says "filter expression" for the command-line filter
expression in Tethereal, as per the above.
