Nicolas Kaiser wrote:
Lo,
I had a look at your User's Guide V2.00.
Please find below some nitpicking ;)
Best wishes to all who contributed to this
nice documentation. Keep up the good work :)
Thanks :-)
I'm planning to release an updated guide in the next time (weeks?), so
your comments came in at the right time :-)
I'm always interested getting the user's guide better and even typos
should be fixed :-)
V2.00 for Ethereal 0.10.5
1.4. A rose by any other name
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- The FAQ gives the official pronounciation as "e-the-real".
+ The FAQ gives the official pronunciation as "e-the-real".
Strange, had a look at my dictionary: it's "to pronounce", but
"pronunciation"?!? Thought that german is a bit strange, but english
seems to have it's "edges" too :-)
I've fixed it.
2.3. Before you build Ethereal
Example 2.3. Errors while installing the libpcap include files
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- Most Linux systems will install GTK+ and Glib in anycase
+ Most Linux systems will install GTK+ and Glib in any case
fixed
3.4. The Menu
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File
- This menu contains tems to open and merge capture files
+ This menu contains items to open and merge capture files
fixed
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Tip!
- (or Strg in german)
+ (or Strg in German)
fixed
3.15. The "Packet List" pane
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- Each line in the packet list corrresponds to one packet in the capture file.
+ Each line in the packet list corresponds to one packet in the capture file.
fixed
4.5. Filtering while capturing
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- A capture filter takes the form of a series of primitive expressions connected by conjuctions
+ A capture filter takes the form of a series of primitive expressions connected by conjunctions
fixed
5.2. Open capture files
5.2.2. Input File Formats
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- Network General/Network Associates DOS-based Sniffer (compressed or unconpressed) captures
+ Network General/Network Associates DOS-based Sniffer (compressed or uncompressed) captures
already fixed before
5.3. Saving captured packets
5.3.2. Output File Formats
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- ".CAP" for Network Assosciates Sniffer Windows
+ ".CAP" for Network Associates Sniffer Windows
fixed
5.6. Printing packets
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Printer
- PostScipt specifies that the packet print process should use PostScript
+ PostScript specifies that the packet print process should use PostScript
fixed
6.3. Building display filter expressions
Table 6.4. Display Filter Logical Operations
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Substring Operator
- After a label you can place a pair of brackes []
+ After a label you can place a pair of brackets []
fixed
8.7. Service Response Time
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Note!
- (or only sligthly different)
+ (or only slightly different)
fixed
Appendix A. Configuration Files and Folders
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ethers
- The digits of hardware addressses are separated by colons
+ The digits of hardware addresses are separated by colons
fixed
Appendix B. Protocols and Protocol Fields
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- Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse Prototocl
+ Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse Protocol
the complete protocol list was removed before (wouldn't be up to date,
better use online info)
C.6. text2pcap: Converting ASCII hexdumps to network captures with text2pcap
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- text2pcap can read hexdumps withmultiple packets in them
+ text2pcap can read hexdumps with multiple packets in them
fixed
C.7. idl2eth: Creating dissectors from Corba IDL files with idl2eth
C.7.3. How to use idl2eth
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- To use idl2eth to generate an ethereal dissector from an idl file use the following proceedure:
+ To use idl2eth to generate an ethereal dissector from an idl file use the following procedure:
fixed
- Proceedure for converting a Corba idl file into an ethereal dissector
+ Procedure for converting a Corba idl file into an ethereal dissector
fixed
2.
- If you dont want to use the shell script wrapper, then try steps 3 or 4 instead.
+ If you don't want to use the shell script wrapper, then try steps 3 or 4 instead.
fixed
