User Interface

 

 

 

 

 

Menu Item

 

Accelerator

 

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Save

 

 

Ctrl+S

 

This menu item saves the current capture. If you have not set a default

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

capture file name (perhaps with the -w <capfile> option), Ethereal pops

 

 

 

 

 

up the Save Capture File As dialog box (which is discussed further in

 

 

 

 

 

Section 5.3.1, “The "Save Capture File As" dialog box”).

 

 

 

 

 

Note!

 

 

 

 

 

If you have already saved the current capture, this menu

 

 

 

 

 

item will be greyed out.

 

 

 

 

 

Note!

 

 

 

 

 

You cannot save a live capture while it is in progress. You

 

 

 

 

 

must stop the capture in order to save.

 

 

 

 

 

Save As...

 

Shift+Ctrl+S

 

This menu item allows you to save the current capture file to whatever

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

file you would like. It pops up the Save Capture File As dialog box

 

 

 

 

 

(which is discussed further in Section 5.3.1, “The "Save Capture File As"

 

 

 

 

 

dialog box”).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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File Set

>

List

 

 

This menu item allows you to show a list of files in a file set. It pops up

Files

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the Ethereal List File Set dialog box (which is discussed further in Sec-

 

 

 

 

 

tion 5.5, “File Sets”).

 

 

 

 

File Set > Next

 

 

If the currently loaded file is part of a file set, jump to the next file in the

File

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

set. If it isn't part of a file set or just the last file in that set, this item is

 

 

 

 

 

greyed out.

 

 

 

 

File Set > Pre-

 

 

If the currently loaded file is part of a file set, jump to the previous file in

vious File

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the set. If it isn't part of a file set or just the first file in that set, this item

 

 

 

 

 

is greyed out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Export

>

as

 

 

This menu item allows you to export all, or some, of the packets in the

"Plain

Text"

 

 

file...

 

 

 

 

capture file to a plain ASCII text file. It pops up the Ethereal Export dia-

 

 

 

 

 

log box (which is discussed further in Section 5.6.1, “The "Export as

 

 

 

 

 

Plain Text File" dialog box”).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Export

>

as

 

 

This menu item allows you to export the (or some) of the packets in the

"PostScript"

 

 

file...

 

 

 

 

capture file to a PostScript file. It pops up the Ethereal Export dialog box

 

 

 

 

 

(which is discussed further in Section 5.6.2, “The "Export as PostScript

 

 

 

 

 

File" dialog box”).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Export

>

as

 

 

This menu item allows you to export the (or some) of the packet summar-

"CSV"

 

 

 

 

(Comma

 

Sep-

 

 

ies in the capture file to a .csv file (e.g. used by spreadsheet programs). It

arated

Values

 

 

pops up the Ethereal Export dialog box (which is discussed further in

packet

sum-

 

 

Section 5.6.3, “The "Export as CSV (Comma Seperated Values) File"

mary) file...

 

 

dialog box”).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Export

>

as

 

 

This menu item allows you to export the (or some) of the packets in the

"PSML" file...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

capture file to a PSML (packet summary markup language) XML file. It

 

 

 

 

 

pops up the Ethereal Export dialog box (which is discussed further in

 

 

 

 

 

Section 5.6.4, “The "Export as PSML File" dialog box”).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lucent Technologies Ethereal Menu Item Accelerator Description Save, Save As, File Set List, Files, File Set Next, Export