docs/60401: small typo/error in tcpdump(1)

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at cell.sick.ru
Sat Jan 17 10:30:21 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR docs/60401; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at cell.sick.ru>
To: Marc Silver <marcs at draenor.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/60401: small typo/error in tcpdump(1)
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:23:40 +0300

 On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:05:32AM +0000, Marc Silver wrote:
 M> I took a quick look at the tcpdump(1) man page on my FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE
 M> box and it looks like this has been fixed already.
 M> 
 M>   -r     Read  packets  from file (which was created with the -w
 M>   	 option).  Standard input is used if file is ``-''.
 M> 
 M>   -w	 Write  the  raw packets to file rather than parsing and
 M> 	 printing them out.  They can later be printed with the -r
 M> 	 option.  Standard output is used if file is ``-''.
 
 You didn't look into right place. The typo is at the very beginning
 of man page, in first paragraph.
 
 However I have looked at tcpdump(1) on 5.2-RELEASE, and the typo
 is fixed there.
 
 M> This PR can most likely be closed.
 
 After the typo fixed in STABLE.
 
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