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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Reviewed and updated "User's Guide" available

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From: Graeme Hewson <ghewson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 22:48:09 +0100
5.1:

"Open/Import capture files in various capture file formats" rather than
"from"

"Save/Export capture files in various file formats" rather than "into"

5.2: "in all desktop environments" rather than "on all desktop
environments"

5.2.1: "GTK version 2.4" rather than "the GTK version 2.4"

5.2.1 action 5: "while is discussed" should be "which is discussed"

bottom of 5.2.1: "a good idea to set them already here" would be better
as "a good idea to set them in advance here"

Figure 5.8: The Save in folder: field lets you select ...
(add "field" and drop apostrophe from "let's")

"Browse for other folders provides a flexible way to choose a folder."
(change to present tense)

Figure 5.9:

Drop commas in:

Plain Text specifies,
Postscript specifies,
Output to file: specifies,

6.1 typo: overwiev
"The following table will give an overview of which functions"
rather than "an overview, which functions"

6.2 "the second type of filter" rather than "the second type of filters"

"Figure 6.6 ... shows an example" rather than "shown an example"

Note under figure 6.6: "The display filter only changes the display of
the capture file and not its content!"

"However" in following paragraph is redundant. "You can filter on any
protocol that Ethereal understands. You can also filter on ..."

6.3.3 Substring Operator "Ethereal allows you to select" rather than
"will allow you"

"Ethereal allows you to string together ... " (top of next page)

6.4 tip better as "... to learn how to write ..."

Under figure 6.7, Field Name "Select a protocol field" rather than
"protocols"

Relation: insert "which": "All other listed relations are binary
relations which require ..."

Last line on p.99: "and possibly some range information."

6.5 warning: "You must use Save to save your filters permanently" rather
than "permanent".

6.7.2 note, redundant word "are": "As these protocol fields now work
like ..."

"... it's easier simply to double-click" rather than "... it's
easier to simply double-click".

6.8 "You" rather than "the user" (stylistic point)

"shown with a black background" rather than "shown with black background
color"

warning: "not stored in the capture file or anywhere else" rather than
"somewhere else"

6.9.1 warning: "The time references will not be saved permanently and will be
lost when you close the capture file."

note: "will have no effect" rather than "will take no effect"