Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] splitting protocol bits out of t/ethereal man pages?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:03:59 -0700

On Sep 25, 2003, at 6:43 AM, Jeff Morriss wrote:

Has anyone ever thought about splitting all the protocol-specific things out of the ethereal & tethereal man pages?

I mean everything from "The following is a table of protocol and protocol fields..." to the FILES section.

The reason I ask is I sometimes want to look at the command line options for ethereal or tethereal, but doing formatting these huge man pages takes a good while (at least on 440 MHz UltraSPARC-II's):

It also takes a long time to page through them, if what you want to read in the man page comes *after* the list of filterable protocols and fields.

It sounds like a good idea to me.