Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal.conf vs. preferences

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Graeme Hewson wrote:

> Sorry, I didn't have time yesterday to expand on my comment.  I meant 
> no implied criticism of the User's Guide, and if you recall, I did 
> some proof-reading of it.

No problem, we're not in a hurry ;-)

> I think there's still more work to do on both the guide and the man 
> pages:
>
> - It's one thing to use $HOME to refer to the user's home directory, 
> but how do we refer to the global directory, when there's no 
> environment variable for it, and it's an installation option?  Should 
> we call it a "global directory" at all, or something else?  Would 
> ${sysconfdir} be understandable as shorthand, or perhaps <global>?

Do you mean that dir I called "/etc"? I tend to use <global>, but which 
files are "using it" for the unix versions? I would guess the same way 
as windows uses the %ETHEREAL% dir, but I'm unsure.

> - Is it really the case that there's no support for a global 
> disabled_protos file?

That feature was added in Revision 9538 in Jan 2004, maybe after I've 
written my first version of the guide? I've checked in a fix.

> - The man pages don't mention dfilters.

I don't like editing (and even read) the man pages at all, so I didn't 
updated it :-( I didn't added the dfilters file at all, it was there a 
long time before I started Ethereal. However, it should be added.

> - Should the Ethereal man page mention cfilters under "FILES" as well 
> as  Windows/Save?

Sorry, I don't understand you here.

> - other things?

Maybe ;-)

Regards, ULFL