Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [Request for comments]: editcap manpage redesigned - changing

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:28:33 +0100 (CET)
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Hi List!
>
> I've recently changed the editcap manpage, as it seems to be lacking of
> some basic usability.

Did a 'pod2man editcap.pod | man -l -' and it looks good.

> I'm just not sure how to display the options?!?
>
> There seems to be two alternatives:
>
> [-c packets per file]
> [-c <packets per file>]

The square brackets tell you that it's an optional element.
The angle brackets tell that this is an element which has to be replaced
by a value.

So [-c <packets per file>] is the way it should read.

Thanx,
Jaap