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Fix the temp file description. Wwhen capturing on multiple interface, pcapng is implied so the file format is not included as part of the temp file name. 

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Chris Maynard 2013-01-25 04:07:35 +00:00
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@ -1358,11 +1358,11 @@ packets to a temporary file, which will probably be in <tt>/tmp</tt> or
<tt>\Users\<var>your login name</var>\AppData\Local\Temp</tt> on the main
system disk on Windows 7, so the capture file will probably be there. If you
are capturing on a single interface, it will have a name of the form,
<tt>wireshark_&lt;fmt&gt_&lt;iface&gt;_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_XXXXXX</tt>; otherwise,
if you are capturing on multiple interfaces, it will have a name of the form,
<tt>wireshark_&lt;fmt&gt_&lt;N&gt;_interfaces_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_XXXXXX</tt>,
where &lt;fmt&gt; is the capture file format (pcap or pcapng), &lt;iface&gt; is
the actual name of the interface you are capturing on, and &lt;N&gt;
<tt>wireshark_&lt;fmt&gt_&lt;iface&gt;_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_XXXXXX</tt>, where
&lt;fmt&gt; is the capture file format (pcap or pcapng), and &lt;iface&gt; is
the actual name of the interface you are capturing on; otherwise, if you are
capturing on multiple interfaces, it will have a name of the form,
<tt>wireshark_&lt;N&gt;_interfaces_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_XXXXXX</tt>, where &lt;N&gt;
is the number of simultaneous interfaces you are capturing on. Please don't
send a trace file greater than 1 MB when compressed; instead, make it available
via FTP or HTTP, or say it's available but leave it up to a developer to ask