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Update the man pages to reflect 

the addition of support for Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection
	System IPlog output;

	support for selecting only one side of a conversation, for
	showing a conversation in hex, and for saving the displayed data
	to a file, in the "Filter TCP Stream" window.

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@ -39,12 +39,13 @@ B<atmsnoop>, B<LanAlyzer>, B<Sniffer> (compressed or uncompressed),
Microsoft B<Network Monitor>, AIX's B<iptrace>, B<NetXray>, B<Sniffer
Pro>, B<RADCOM>'s WAN/LAN analyzer, B<Lucent/Ascend> router debug
output, HP-UX's B<nettl>, the dump output from B<Toshiba's> ISDN
routers, and B<i4btrace> from the ISDN4BSD project. There is no need to
tell B<Ethereal> what type of file you are reading; it will determine
the file type by itself. B<Ethereal> is also capable of reading any of
these file formats if they are compressed using gzip. B<Ethereal>
recognizes this directly from the file; the '.gz' extension is not
required for this purpose.
routers, the output from B<i4btrace> from the ISDN4BSD project, and
output in IPLog format from the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System.
There is no need to tell B<Ethereal> what type of file you are reading;
it will determine the file type by itself. B<Ethereal> is also capable
of reading any of these file formats if they are compressed using gzip.
B<Ethereal> recognizes this directly from the file; the '.gz' extension
is not required for this purpose.
Like other protocol analyzers, B<Ethereal>'s main window shows 3 views
of a packet. It shows a summary line, briefly describing what the
@ -54,11 +55,11 @@ shows you exactly what the packet looks like when it goes over the wire.
In addition, B<Ethereal> has some features that make it unique. It can
assemble all the packets in a TCP conversation and show you the ASCII
(or EBCDIC) data in that conversation. Display filters in B<Ethereal>
are very powerful; more fields are filterable in B<Ethereal> than in other
protocol analyzers, and the syntax you can use to create your filters is
richer. As B<Ethereal> progresses, expect more and more protocol fields to
be allowed in display filters.
(or EBCDIC, or hex) data in that conversation. Display filters in
B<Ethereal> are very powerful; more fields are filterable in B<Ethereal>
than in other protocol analyzers, and the syntax you can use to create
your filters is richer. As B<Ethereal> progresses, expect more and more
protocol fields to be allowed in display filters.
Packet capturing is performed with the pcap library. The capture filter
syntax follows the rules of the pcap library. This syntax is different
@ -324,9 +325,31 @@ ENTER in the display filter text box, thereby invoking your old display
filter (or resetting it back to no display filter).
The window in which the data stream is displayed lets you select whether
the data being displayed is to be treated as ASCII or EBCDIC text, and
lets you print the text, using the same print options that are used for
the I<File:Print Packet> menu item.
to display:
=over 4
=item
whether to display the entire conversation, or one or the other side of
it;
=item
whether the data being displayed is to be treated as ASCII or EBCDIC
text or as raw hex data;
=back
=back
=over 4
=item
and lets you print what's currently being displayed, using the same
print options that are used for the I<File:Print Packet> menu item, or
save it as text to a file.
=back

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@ -36,12 +36,13 @@ B<Shomiti>) and B<atmsnoop>, B<LanAlyzer>, B<Sniffer> (compressed or
uncompressed), Microsoft B<Network Monitor>, AIX's B<iptrace>,
B<NetXray>, B<Sniffer Pro>, B<RADCOM>'s WAN/LAN analyzer,
B<Lucent/Ascend> router debug output, HP-UX's B<nettl>, the dump output
from B<Toshiba's> ISDN routers, and B<i4btrace> from the ISDN4BSD
project. There is no need to tell B<Tethereal> what type of file you
are reading; it will determine the file type by itself. B<Tethereal> is
also capable of reading any of these file formats if they are compressed
using gzip. B<Tethereal> recognizes this directly from the file; the
'.gz' extension is not required for this purpose.
from B<Toshiba's> ISDN routers, the output from B<i4btrace> from the
ISDN4BSD project, and output in IPLog format from the Cisco Secure
Intrusion Detection System. There is no need to tell B<Tethereal> what
type of file you are reading; it will determine the file type by itself.
B<Tethereal> is also capable of reading any of these file formats if
they are compressed using gzip. B<Tethereal> recognizes this directly
from the file; the '.gz' extension is not required for this purpose.
If the B<-w> flag is not specified, B<Tethereal> prints a decoded form
of the packets it captures or reads; otherwise, it writes those packets