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add some more content to the overview section 

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</title>
<graphic entityref="EtherealFunctionBlocks" format="PNG"/>
</figure>
XXX - describe the blocks in detail
</para>
<para>
The function blocks in more detail:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><command>GTK 1/2</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Handling of all user input/output (all windows, dialogs and such).
Source code can be found in the <filename>gtk</filename> directory.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><command>Core</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Main "glue code" that holds the other blocks together, source
code can be found in the root directory.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><command>Epan</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Ethereal Package ANalyzing (XXX - is this correct?) the packet
analyzing engine, source code can be found in the
<filename>epan</filename> directory.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Protocol-Tree - Keep data of the capture file protocol information.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Dissectors - The various protocol dissectors in
<filename>epan/dissectors</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Plugins - Some of the protocol dissectors are implemented as plugins, source
code at <filename>plugins</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Display-Filters - the display filter engine at
<filename>epan/dfilter</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><command>Capture</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Capture engine.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><command>Wiretap</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The wiretap library is used to read/write capture files in libpcap
and a lot of other file formats, the source code is in the
<filename>wiretap</filename> directory.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>Win-/libpcap (not part of the Ethereal package)</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The platform dependant packet capture library, including the capture
filter engine. That's the reason why we still have different display
and capture filter syntax, as two different filtering engines used.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</section>