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

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Graeme Hewson wrote:

> Ulf Lamping wrote:
>
> > > 4.2.1:
> > >
> > > Interface: drop "the" in "the Ethereal"
> >
> >
> >
> > changed
> >
> > > Link-layer header type: substitute "Unless you are in the rare 
> > > situation
> > > that you need this,"
> >
> >
> >
> > Sorry, don't understand
>
>
> You are a rare case or you are in a rare situation.  You are not in a
> rare case.  The present tense is normally used throughout, so drop
> "will".

I'm not a rare case, or at least I'm hopefully not ;-)

replaced sentence by:
"Unless you are in the rare situation that you need this, just keep the 
default"

> > > Capture packets in promiscuous mode: I think "put the interface in" is
> > > better (as you say the first note)
> >
> >
> >
> > Sorry, don't understand
>
>
> You say "This checkbox allows you to specify that Ethereal should set
> the interface in promiscuous mode when capturing."  "Put the interface
> in" sounds better to my ear, and indeed you say "put" instead of "set"
> in the first note following.
found the place, changed now

> > > Description of figure 4.2: "The protocols which are counted cannot be
> > > changed."
> >
> >
> >
> > That's misleading! The protocols *can* be changed (by preferences), 
> > only the selection which is displayed in this dialog cannot!
>
>
> Hmm.  Drop the sentence altogether?  I must admit it had never occurred
> to me I might want to change the selection.
There were questions on the mailing list (I think twice) about this in 
the past, so I think we should keep this sentence.

> > > 4.6.1: mention ^E ?
> > I've added a section, please review.
>
>
> Looks good.  Incidentally, is there a way to prevent the Note! icon and
> its associated text being split across a page?
I don't know such a way :-(

> Point 4: insert "is": "if one of the stop conditions is exceeded".
changed

> > As the next Ethereal release 0.10.6 seems to be planned, I would like 
> > to release this book (as it's related to 0.10.5) any time soon.
> >
> > Is it possible for you to hurry up the review a bit? So we might 
> > release this book before the weekend? (Yes I know, time is precious, 
> > I'm busy myself).
>
>
> I'll try!
:-)

Regards, ULFL