man: Add details on the relationships between -A, -X[X] and -x[x] options

(cherry picked from commit 98b96cb74c3841e6e4eabf619cf682b4945468ad)

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diff --git a/tcpdump.1.in b/tcpdump.1.in
index 3ed261df6fe76220046a3fb08f6b2ae5e7c4476d..6ebc27047b72c166b1176d507d9ffd052970880f 100644 (file)
--- a/tcpdump.1.in
+++ b/tcpdump.1.in
@@ -237,6 +237,11 @@ special privileges.
 .B \-A
 Print each packet (minus its link level header) in ASCII.  Handy for
 capturing web pages.
 .B \-A
 Print each packet (minus its link level header) in ASCII.  Handy for
 capturing web pages.

+No effect when
+.B \-x[x]
+or
+.B \-X[X]
+options are used.

 .TP
 .B \-b
 Print the AS number in BGP packets in ASDOT notation rather than ASPLAIN
 .TP
 .B \-b
 Print the AS number in BGP packets in ASDOT notation rather than ASPLAIN


@@ -897,6 +902,9 @@ required padding.
 In the current implementation this flag may have the same effect as
 .B \-xx
 if the packet is truncated.
 In the current implementation this flag may have the same effect as
 .B \-xx
 if the packet is truncated.

+No effect when
+.B \-X[X]
+option is used.

 .TP
 .B \-xx
 When parsing and printing,
 .TP
 .B \-xx
 When parsing and printing,


@@ -904,6 +912,9 @@ in addition to printing the headers of each packet, print the data of
 each packet,
 .I including
 its link level header, in hex.
 each packet,
 .I including
 its link level header, in hex.

+No effect when
+.B \-X[X]
+option is used.

 .TP
 .B \-X
 When parsing and printing,
 .TP
 .B \-X
 When parsing and printing,