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.ad
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
-\fITcpdump\fP prints out the headers of packets on a network interface
-that match the boolean \fIexpression\fP. It can also be run with the
+\fITcpdump\fP prints out a description of the contents of packets on a
+network interface that match the boolean \fIexpression\fP. It can also
+be run with the
.B \-w
flag, which causes it to save the packet data to a file for later
analysis, and/or with the