Note that Mac OS X, as one of the BSDs, has SIGINFO; note that

Digital/Tru64 UNIX has it as well (although the tty(7) man page doesn't
mention VSTATUS - stty(1) mentions "status", however, and signal(4)
mentions SIGINFO, and some Tru64->HP-UX transition pages mention SIGINFO
as a feature available in Tru64 but not HP-UX).

Note that on some systems (e.g., Mac OS X), you might have to set your
"status" character as it defaults, on those systems, to "not set".

Get rid of the reference to "traffic(1C)" (it's not referred to in the
man page, and about the only connection it has with tcpdump is that they
both watch network traffic; traffic(1C) is a SunOS 4.x-ism, not present
on other platforms), and add a reference to pfconfig(8) for
Digital/Tru64 (it *is* referred to, in the section of what privileges
you need in order to capture traffic).

diff --git a/tcpdump.1 b/tcpdump.1
index b99f08ba3e4b135ae570ea93e626d519762bdf16..5d642ec02c04215d9c26a7f4ac2f6f7be9024345 100644 (file)
--- a/tcpdump.1
+++ b/tcpdump.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/Attic/tcpdump.1,v 1.148.2.3 2003-11-23 23:43:41 guy Exp $ (LBL)
+.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/Attic/tcpdump.1,v 1.148.2.4 2004-01-07 22:51:34 guy Exp $ (LBL)
 .\"
 .\"    $NetBSD: tcpdump.8,v 1.9 2003/03/31 00:18:17 perry Exp $
 .\"
@@ -146,10 +146,14 @@ in the OS on which
 is running, if the OS reports that information to applications; if not,
 it will be reported as 0).
 .LP
-On platforms that support the SIGINFO signal, such as most BSDs, it will
-report those counts when it receives a SIGINFO signal (generated, for
-example, by typing your ``status'' character, typically control-T) and
-will continue capturing packets.
+On platforms that support the SIGINFO signal, such as most BSDs
+(including Mac OS X) and Digital/Tru64 UNIX, it will report those counts
+when it receives a SIGINFO signal (generated, for example, by typing
+your ``status'' character, typically control-T, although on some
+platforms, such as Mac OS X, the ``status'' character is not set by
+default, so you must set it with
+.BR stty (1)
+in order to use it) and will continue capturing packets.
 .LP
 Reading packets from a network interface may require that you have
 special privileges:
@@ -2103,7 +2107,7 @@ is made to account for the time lag between when the
 ethernet interface removed the packet from the wire and when the kernel
 serviced the `new packet' interrupt.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
-traffic(1C), nit(4P), bpf(4), pcap(3)
+stty(1), pcap(3), bpf(4), nit(4P), pfconfig(8)
 .SH AUTHORS
 The original authors are:
 .LP