Bill Meier wrote:
> First: The ability to view the user's manual and the man pages and etc in a 
> browser is really neat; nice work ! 
>   
Thanks :-)

BTW: From 0.99.5 you'll be able to press a help button on various 
dialogs showing the corresponding section of the User's Guide - might be 
even more helpful ;-)
> I'm using Firefox on Windows XP with Wireshark SVN 20522 built with MSVC 6.
>
> A few minor notes based upon some quick tests:
>
> 1. When I select 
>
> Help ! Manual Pages ! Wireshark   I get a "Copy" pop-up box saying "Select 
> the place where you want to copy wireshark.html".
>
> If I hit cancel the wireshark man page displays in Firefox.
> If I hit 'copy' the file is copied but does not get displayed in Firefox.
>
>
> So: what's the 'copy' popup about ??
> Something about my configuration ? or what ?
>   
My machine (XP/Firefox) simply shows the requested manpage in HTML 
format. Sounds like your firefox configuration is strange. I guess that 
has something to do with the local files (file:// prefix) - but i don't 
have a clue about the real cause.
> 2. The Help ! Contents and the Help ! User' Guide  both display the User's 
> Guide.
>
> Is that as expected ?   If so, might it be better to only have one choice 
> which displays the User's Guide ?
>   
Yes, that left over from previous implementation. I've removed the 
duplicate User's Guide item.
> 3. One time while trying out the Help ! ... functions I somehow managed to 
> wedge Wireshark; It wasn't using any CPU but would not respond to any mouse 
> clicks. When I used the task manager to kill Wireshark, the message I got was 
> 'program not responding.... do you want to stop ... ?".
>
> I was unable to duplicate this with a few quick tries. I'll see if I can 
> duplicate the problem tomorrow evening and try to see what is going on
Hmmh, without more input it will be hard to track this down.

I never experienced something like this myself.

Regards, ULFL
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