Talk:Tcpdump

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Is there any way to put the title in lower case for unix commands ? Ericd 00:43 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)

No. This issue has been discussed several times before, e.g. regarding iMac. Complain to a programmer. -- Tim Starling 00:58 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)

I think that was a decision based largely on practicality--otherwise, dog and Dog would lead to different articles, which would clutter the database considerably with redirects. Koyaanis Qatsi

It's a simple problem to fix, for a competent programmer. You just have a "make this title lower case" flag that can be set, associated with the article, similar to the page protection flag. The UI could just be a checkbox on the edit page. -- Tim Starling 01:27 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)

I'll take your word on it. Koyaanis Qatsi, not a software programmer

I think article requiring lowercase will be a minority (as of today I don't see any other case than unix commands or iMac). While my programming skills are limited a tag in the tittle is the way to go IMO. Of course we will have to move article by hand thereafter. Ericd 10:42, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

No, the WinPcap page should not be merged with this page. WinPcap is a library for packet capture (a port of libpcap to Windows); tcpdump is a packet capture program that uses libpcap (the WinDump port of tcpdump uses WinPcap). Perhaps the WinPcap page should be merged with the page for libpcap - and the page for pcap.

Unless somebody explains why they believe the WinPcap page should be merged with tcpdump rather than, say, libpcap, I'll assume they were confused, and will change the suggestion to say it should perhaps be merged with libpcap. Guy Harris 21:25, 5 November 2005 (UTC)