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Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Q about new Help ! Manual Pages feature

From: "Bill Meier" <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:45:51 -0500
First: The ability to view the user's manual and the man pages and etc in a 
browser is really neat; nice work ! 

I'm using Firefox on Windows XP with Wireshark SVN 20522 built with MSVC 6.

A few minor notes based upon some quick tests:

1. When I select 

Help ! Manual Pages ! Wireshark   I get a "Copy" pop-up box saying "Select 
the place where you want to copy wireshark.html".

If I hit cancel the wireshark man page displays in Firefox.
If I hit 'copy' the file is copied but does not get displayed in Firefox.


So: what's the 'copy' popup about ??
Something about my configuration ? or what ?

2. The Help ! Contents and the Help ! User' Guide  both display the User's 
Guide.

Is that as expected ?   If so, might it be better to only have one choice 
which displays the User's Guide ?

3. One time while trying out the Help ! ... functions I somehow managed to 
wedge Wireshark; It wasn't using any CPU but would not respond to any mouse 
clicks. When I used the task manager to kill Wireshark, the message I got was 
'program not responding.... do you want to stop ... ?".

I was unable to duplicate this with a few quick tries. I'll see if I can 
duplicate the problem tomorrow evening and try to see what is going on.


Bill