Lucent Technologies Ethereal - Manual (Page 47)

3.4. The Menu
The Ethereal menu sits on top of the Ethereal window. An example is shown in Figure 3.2, “The
Menu” .
Note!
Menu items will be greyed out if the corresponding feature isn't available. For ex-
ample, you cannot save a capture file if you didn't capture or load any data before.
Figure 3.2. The Menu
It contains the following items:
File This menu contains items to open and merge capture files, save / print / export
capture files in whole or in part, and to quit from Ethereal. See
Section 3.5, “The
"File" menu” .
Edit This menu contains items to find a packet, time reference or mark one or more
packets, set your preferences, (cut, copy, and paste are not presently implemented).
See
Section 3.6, “The "Edit" menu” .
View This menu controls the display of the captured data, including the colorization of
packets, zooming the font, show a packet in a separate window, expand and col-
lapse trees in packet details, .... See
Section 3.7, “The "View" menu” .
Go This menu contains items to go to a specific packet. See Section 3.8, “The "Go"
menu” .
Capture This menu allows you to start and stop captures and to edit capture filters. See Sec-
tion 3.9, “The "Capture" menu” .
Analyze This menu contains items to manipulate display filters, enable or disable the dis-
section of protocols, configure user specified decodes and follow a TCP stream.
See
Section 3.10, “The "Analyze" menu” .
Statistics This menu contains menu-items to display various statistic windows, including a
summary of the packets that have been captured, display protocol hierarchy statist-
ics and much more. See
Section 3.11, “The "Statistics" menu” .
Help This menu contains items to help the user, like access to some basic help, a list of
the supported protocols, manual pages, online access to some of the webpages, and
the usual about dialog. See
Section 3.12, “The "Help" menu” .
Each of these menu items is described in more detail in the sections that follow.
Tip!
You can access menu items directly or by pressing the corresponding accelerator keys,
which are shown at the right side of the menu. For example, you can press the Control
(or Strg in German) and the K keys together to open the capture dialog.
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