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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2017-04-05 12:15:27 -0700
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2017-04-05 19:16:22 +0000
commit357cfd3b035d1ba6438e82cc1cbec105874206b6 (patch)
tree58a77b4dc8e1192db6278716b320bf42a18ded8f /help
parent1f94d34f43055ea47fc9426e1720bdb4b7397dd9 (diff)
downloadwireshark-357cfd3b035d1ba6438e82cc1cbec105874206b6.tar.gz
A bunch of "{Mac} OS X" -> "macOS" changes.
Avoid anachronisms, however; there was no "macOS 10.0" or even "OS X 10.0", for example. It was "Mac OS X" until 10.8 (although 10.7 was sometimes called "OS X" and sometimes called "Mac OS X"), and it was "OS X" from 10.8 to 10.11. Change-Id: Ie4a848997dcc6c45c2245c1fb84ec526032375c3 Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/20933 Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'help')
-rwxr-xr-xhelp/faq.py8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/help/faq.py b/help/faq.py
index 429b4198ba..d2df8c2f9b 100755
--- a/help/faq.py
+++ b/help/faq.py
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ answer("""
Wireshark&#174; is a network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and
interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network. It has
a rich and powerful feature set and is world's most popular tool of its
-kind. It runs on most computing platforms including Windows, OS X,
+kind. It runs on most computing platforms including Windows, macOS,
Linux, and UNIX. Network professionals, security experts, developers,
and educators around the world use it regularly. It is freely available
as open source, and is released under the GNU General Public License
@@ -729,12 +729,12 @@ with version 4.2.2 or a later version.
""")
question("""
-I've installed Wireshark from Fink on OS X; why is it very slow to
+I've installed Wireshark from Fink on macOS; why is it very slow to
start up?
""")
answer("""
-When an application is installed on OS X, prior to 10.4, it is usually
+When an application is installed on macOS, prior to 10.4, it is usually
"prebound" to speed up launching the application. (That's what the
"Optimizing" phase of installation is.)
@@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ Most OSes do <strong>not</strong> support capturing the FCS of a frame
on Ethernet, and probably do not support it on most other link-layer
types. Some drivres on some OSes do support it, such as some (all?)
Ethernet drivers on NetBSD and possibly the driver for Apple's gigabit
-Ethernet interface in OS X; in those OSes, you might always get the
+Ethernet interface in macOS; in those OSes, you might always get the
FCS, or you might only get the FCS if you capture in promiscuous mode
(you'd have to determine which is the case).