Get rid of the list of capture file formats, so we have one fewer list

that we can fail to update.  Point the user at the Wireshark man page,
instead.

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@ -95,38 +95,10 @@ The wiretap library is a packet-capture library currently under
development parallel to wireshark. In the future it is hoped that
wiretap will have more features than libpcap, but wiretap is still in
its infancy. However, wiretap is used in wireshark for its ability
to read multiple file types. You can read the following file
formats:
to read multiple file types. See the Wireshark man page or the
Wireshark User's Guide for a list of supported file formats.
libpcap (tcpdump -w, etc.) - this is Wireshark's native format
snoop and atmsnoop
Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor
Novell LANalyzer
Network General/Network Associates DOS-based Sniffer (compressed and
uncompressed)
Microsoft Network Monitor
AIX's iptrace
Cinco Networks NetXRay
Network Associates Windows-based Sniffer
AG Group/WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek/EtherHelp
RADCOM's WAN/LAN Analyzer
Lucent/Ascend access products
HP-UX's nettl
Toshiba's ISDN routers
ISDN4BSD "i4btrace" utility
Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System iplogging facility
pppd logs (pppdump-format files)
VMS's TCPIPtrace utility
DBS Etherwatch for VMS
Traffic captures from Visual Networks' Visual UpTime
CoSine L2 debug output
Output from Accellent's 5Views LAN agents
Endace Measurement Systems' ERF format
Linux Bluez Bluetooth stack "hcidump -w" traces
Network Instruments Observer version 9
Trace files for the EyeSDN USB S0
In addition, it can read gzipped versions of any of these files
In addition, it can read gzipped versions of any of those files
automatically, if you have the zlib library available when compiling
Wireshark. Wireshark needs a modern version of zlib to be able to use
zlib to read gzipped files; version 1.1.3 is known to work. Versions