Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Sniffing Wireless with Wireshark?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 1, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Steve Evans wrote:

> > Presumably by "PCAP (or similar) adapters" you mean
> > "AirPcap (or
> > similar) adapters":
>
> Correct. We've grown accustomed to calling them "PCAP" for short.

Given that not everybody's familiar with that convention - I've never  
heard it, for example - and that "pcap" is also used to refer to  
libpcap/WinPcap (see the Wikipedia page for "pcap", for example),  
using the full name is probably a better idea on the list.