Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Patches to realign Ethereal/Tethereal documentation

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From: Graeme Hewson <ghewson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:14:37 +0100
Guy Harris wrote:
Note that a "-R" filter could be used in Tethereal in a fashion that doesn't involve displaying (e.g., "tethereal -i en0 -w only-nfs.pcap -R nfs"), which was the reason I coined the phrase "read filter" for the use of Ethereal filter expressions in Tethereal. (I.e., the different terms aren't the result of the documents drifting apart, they were intentionally made different.)
Indeed. OK, here's a revised set of patches which reverts to using "read filter" in Tethereal. Please could you consider checking them in.
I think users could be confused, though, by calling almost-identical features by different names. Perhaps we could add a few words to both documents explaining the different names. I'm not sure "read filter" is a good name, though: I remember when I first started using (T)ethereal being confused between "capture filter" and "read filter". How about "output filter" for both programs?

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