Re: Errors with the Snort manual

[Nigel Houghton <nhoughton () sourcefire com>]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:37 PM, evilghost () packetmail net
<evilghost () packetmail net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There was a discussion on ET about some errors in the Snort manual.  I
> cannot remember if I reported these or not.  The Snort 2.8.4 manual
> appears to be inaccurate or wrong in a few places, specifically:
>
> Page #114, section 3.5.6, the REGEX used to explain figure 3.16 is
> incorrect.
> Page #114, section 3.5.7, the "10 bytes past the ABCDE match" verbiage
> is incorrect, there is no "D" in figure 3.17 nor is the explanation of
> figure 3.17 correct.
>
> I did not check 2.8.5 but I assume these may persist there as well.
>
> Thanks
> -evilghost
>
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The 2.8.4 manual was indeed incorrect. The 2.8.5 manual has been corrected.

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