Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] splitting protocol bits out of t/ethereal man pages?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 25, 2003, at 6:43 AM, Jeff Morriss wrote:

> Has anyone ever thought about splitting all the protocol-specific 
> things out of the ethereal & tethereal man pages?
>
> I mean everything from "The following is a table of protocol and 
> protocol fields..." to the FILES section.
>
> The reason I ask is I sometimes want to look at the command line 
> options for ethereal or tethereal, but doing formatting these huge man 
> pages takes a good while (at least on 440 MHz UltraSPARC-II's):

It also takes a long time to page through them, if what you want to 
read in the man page comes *after* the list of filterable protocols and 
fields.

It sounds like a good idea to me.