Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal.conf vs. preferences
Graeme Hewson wrote:
Sorry, I didn't have time yesterday to expand on my comment. I meant
no implied criticism of the User's Guide, and if you recall, I did
some proof-reading of it.
No problem, we're not in a hurry ;-)
I think there's still more work to do on both the guide and the man
pages:
- It's one thing to use $HOME to refer to the user's home directory,
but how do we refer to the global directory, when there's no
environment variable for it, and it's an installation option? Should
we call it a "global directory" at all, or something else? Would
${sysconfdir} be understandable as shorthand, or perhaps <global>?
Do you mean that dir I called "/etc"? I tend to use <global>, but which
files are "using it" for the unix versions? I would guess the same way
as windows uses the %ETHEREAL% dir, but I'm unsure.
- Is it really the case that there's no support for a global
disabled_protos file?
That feature was added in Revision 9538 in Jan 2004, maybe after I've
written my first version of the guide? I've checked in a fix.
- The man pages don't mention dfilters.
I don't like editing (and even read) the man pages at all, so I didn't
updated it :-( I didn't added the dfilters file at all, it was there a
long time before I started Ethereal. However, it should be added.
- Should the Ethereal man page mention cfilters under "FILES" as well
as Windows/Save?
Sorry, I don't understand you here.
- other things?
Maybe ;-)
Regards, ULFL
