Wireshark · Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11227] New: The Wireshark man page does not document the subnets and services

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Bug ID	11227
Summary	The Wireshark man page does not document the subnets and services files.
Product	Wireshark
Version	Git
Hardware	All
OS	All
Status	UNCONFIRMED
Severity	Normal
Priority	Low
Component	Documentation
Assignee	bugzilla-admin@wireshark.org
Reporter	Christopher.Maynard@igt.com

Build Information:
Version 1.99.6 (v1.99.6rc0-701-g4963c77 from master)

Copyright 1998-2015 Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> and contributors.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled (64-bit) with GTK+ 2.24.23, with Cairo 1.12.16, with Pango 1.36.8,
with
WinPcap (4_1_3), with libz 1.2.8, with GLib 2.42.0, with SMI 0.4.8, with c-ares
1.9.1, with Lua 5.2, with GnuTLS 3.2.15, with Gcrypt 1.6.2, with MIT Kerberos,
with GeoIP, with PortAudio V19-devel (built May 20 2015), with AirPcap.

Running on 64-bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1, build 7601, with locale
English_United States.1252, with WinPcap version 4.1.3 (packet.dll version
4.1.0.2980), based on libpcap version 1.0 branch 1_0_rel0b (20091008), with
GnuTLS 3.2.15, with Gcrypt 1.6.2, with AirPcap 4.1.3 build 3348.
       Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2540M CPU @ 2.60GHz (with SSE4.2), with 8072MB of
physical memory.


Built using Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0 build 30319
--
Bug 7339 was recently closed as a duplicate of bug 1445.  Part of the problem,
I believe, with the bug being open for so long even though the feature has been
available for over 7 years is that the subnets file, along with the services
file, is not documented in the Wireshark man page.  (The other part of the
problem is just user error on my part.)

This bug is opened to track the lack of proper documentation in the man page
for those 2 files, namely subnets and services.  Compare the list of files in
the User Guide at
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html/#ChAppFilesConfigurationSection with
those documented in the "Files" section of the Wireshark man page, and you can
see that those 2 files are missing from the man page.

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