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

[Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Graeme Hewson wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> 
> We'll confusing it is.
> 
> Every time I read the word read filter, I don't even know if it's using
> the capture or display filter syntax.
> 
> Simply use the terms display / capture filter corresponding to the
> syntax might not be perfect, but a lot less confusing than the term read
> filter in my eyes.
> 
> E.g. if I open a file, I might understand what a capture filter at that
> moment probably means.

post-capture ?


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