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diff --git a/doc/tethereal.pod.template b/doc/tethereal.pod.template index 5ed92b3091..afadbee172 100644 --- a/doc/tethereal.pod.template +++ b/doc/tethereal.pod.template @@ -53,12 +53,13 @@ ISDN4BSD project, the output in B<IPLog> format from the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System, B<pppd logs> (pppdump format), the output from VMS's B<TCPIPtrace>/B<TCPtrace>/B<UCX$TRACE> utilities, the text output from the B<DBS Etherwatch> VMS utility, traffic capture files -from Visual Networks' Visual UpTime, and the output from B<CoSine> L2 -debug. There is no need to tell B<Tethereal> what type of file you are -reading; it will determine the file type by itself. B<Tethereal> is -also capable of reading any of these file formats if they are compressed -using gzip. B<Tethereal> recognizes this directly from the file; the -'.gz' extension is not required for this purpose. +from Visual Networks' Visual UpTime, the output from B<CoSine> L2 debug, +and the output from Accellent's 5Views LAN agents. There is no need to +tell B<Tethereal> what type of file you are reading; it will determine +the file type by itself. B<Tethereal> is also capable of reading any of +these file formats if they are compressed using gzip. B<Tethereal> +recognizes this directly from the file; the '.gz' extension is not +required for this purpose. If the B<-w> flag is not specified, B<Tethereal> prints a decoded form of the packets it captures or reads; otherwise, it writes those packets |