3. Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the whole Ethereal team for their assistance. In particular, the au-
thors would like to thank:
• Gerald Combs, for initiating the Ethereal project and funding to do this documentation.
• Guy Harris, for many helpful hints and a great deal of patience in reviewing this document.
• Gilbert Ramirez, for general encouragement and helpful hints along the way.
The authors would also like to thank the following people for their helpful feedback on this docu-
ment:
• Pat Eyler, for his suggestions on improving the example on generating a backtrace.
• Martin Regner, for his various suggestions and corrections.
• Graeme Hewson, for a lot of grammatical corrections.
The authors would like to acknowledge those man page and README authors for the ethereal
project from who sections of this document borrow heavily:
• Scott Renfro from whose mergecap man page Section C.6, “mergecap: Merging multiple cap-
ture files into one ” is derived.
• Ashok Narayanan from whose text2pcap man page Section C.7, “text2pcap: Converting ASCII
hexdumps to network captures ” is derived.
• Frank Singleton from whose README.idl2eth Section C.8, “idl2eth: Creating dissectors
from Corba IDL files ” is derived.
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