Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Reviewed and updated "User's Guide" available

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From: Graeme Hewson <ghewson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 19:07:39 +0100
Ulf Lamping wrote:

1.7.1 remove comma in "keep in mind, that a lot of people"


are you sure?

Reasonably. I'd say "keep in mind that a lot of people" or "keep in mind, a lot of people". I think http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_comma.html part 4 applies. (I found that through a Web search, BTW; I haven't studied the site.)

1.7.2 ethereal-users: run-on sentence. change "Ethereal, others" to
"Ethereal; others"


are you sure?

Maybe I was too picky.

1.7.4 "cut -f' ' -d2" should be "cut -d' ' -f2". Is there any particular
reason to use "whereis", though? Simpler would be "which", as in:

gdb `which ethereal` core >& bt.txt

This is from one of the former authors. I would think the whole unix related section(s) has to be redesigned/updated.

Add note that the backtrace command won't be echoed.


added it to the backtrace note, please review

I suggest insert "but": "after the first line shown above, but it will not be echoed". Also, there's still the swapped -d and -f in the second stage of the pipe.