Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Minor doc updates

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From: Brad Hards <bhards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 21:00:29 +1000
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I've been a bit disappointed by the documentation for Ethereal, so I'm working 
through the user manual (and the FAQ, and some of the postings to 
ethereal-users).

Patches to Chapter 1 attached. Please review and apply.

Brad
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? developer-guide.pdf
? ethereal-doc-chap1-180402003.patch
? make_developer-guide.log
? make_user-guide.log
? user-guide
? user-guide.junk
? user-guide.pdf
Index: ug-src/EUG_chapter_one.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/ethereal-doc/ug-src/EUG_chapter_one.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -3 -p -r1.16 EUG_chapter_one.sgml
--- ug-src/EUG_chapter_one.sgml	1 Dec 2002 22:50:09 -0000	1.16
+++ ug-src/EUG_chapter_one.sgml	18 Apr 2003 10:58:00 -0000
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
       This manual was originally developed by 
       <ulink url="mailto:&AuthorEmail";>Richard Sharpe</ulink> with 
       funds provided from the Ethereal Fund. More recently, it was 
-      updated by <ulink url="mailto:&AuthorEmail2";>Ed Warnicke</ulink>.
+      updated by <ulink url="mailto:&AuthorEmail2";>Ed
+Warnicke</ulink>. Brad Hards has also contributed some changes.
     </para>
     <para>
       It is written in DocBook/SGML for the moment.
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@
     <para>
       Every network manager at some time or other needs a tool that can 
       capture packets off the network and analyze them.  In the past, such 
-      tools were either very expensive, propietary, or both.  However, with 
+      tools were either very expensive, proprietary, or both.  However, with 
       the advent of Ethereal, all that has changed.
     </para>
     <para>
@@ -47,8 +48,9 @@
 		</para>
 	      </listitem>
 	      <listitem><para>NetXray</para></listitem>
+	      <listitem><para>Novell's LANalyzer</para></listitem>
 	      <listitem><para>LANalyzer</para></listitem>
-	      <listitem><para>Shomiti</para></listitem>
+	      <listitem><para>Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor</para></listitem>
 	      <listitem><para>AIX's iptrace</para></listitem>
 	      <listitem><para>RADCOM's WAN/LAN Analyzer</para></listitem>
 	      <listitem><para>Lucent/Ascend access products</para></listitem>
@@ -60,7 +62,15 @@
 		</para>
 	      </listitem>
 	      <listitem><para>Microsoft Network Monitor</para></listitem>
-	      <listitem><para>Sun snoop</para></listitem>
+	      <listitem><para>Sun snoop and atmsnoop</para></listitem>
+	      <listitem><para>Cisco Secure IDS iplog</para></listitem>
+	      <listitem><para>pppd log (pppdump-format)</para></listitem>
+	      <listitem><para>AG Group's/WildPacket's EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek</para></listitem>
+	      <listitem><para>Visual Networks' Visual UpTime</para></listitem>
+	      <listitem><para>Lucent/Ascend WAN routers</para></listitem>
+	      <listitem><para>Toshiba ISDN routers,</para></listitem>
+	      <listitem><para>text output from VMS's TCPIPtrace utility</para></listitem>
+	      <listitem><para>DBS Etherwatch utility for VMS</para></listitem>
 	    </itemizedlist>
 	  </para>
 	</listitem>
@@ -122,7 +132,7 @@
     <title>The status of Ethereal</title>
     <para>
       Ethereal is an open source software project, and is released under 
-      the <ulink url="&GPLWebsite;">Gnu Public Licence</ulink> (GPL). All 
+      the <ulink url="&GPLWebsite;">GNU Public Licence</ulink> (GPL). All 
       source code is freely available under the GPL.  You are welcome to 
       modify Ethereal to suit your own needs, and it would be appreciated 
       if you contribute your improvements back to the Ethereal team.
@@ -240,6 +250,7 @@
       Binary packages are available for at least the following platforms:
       <itemizedlist>
 	<listitem><para>AIX</para></listitem>
+	<listitem><para>BeOS</para></listitem>
 	<listitem><para>Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX)</para></listitem>
 	<listitem><para>Debian GNU/Linux</para></listitem>
 	<listitem><para>Slackware Linux</para></listitem>
@@ -249,6 +260,7 @@
 	<listitem><para>OpenBSD</para></listitem>
 	<listitem><para>HP/UX</para></listitem>
 	<listitem><para>Sparc/Solaris</para></listitem>
+	<listitem><para>Mac OS X</para></listitem>
 	<listitem>
 	  <para>
 	    Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows Me/98/95
@@ -315,7 +327,7 @@
 	<listitem>
 	  <para>
 	    The version number of Ethereal you found the problem with, 
-	    eg Ethereal 0.8.10.
+	    eg Ethereal 0.9.11.
 	  </para>
 	</listitem>
 	<listitem>