Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Changes/Suggestions...?

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From: guy@xxxxxxxxxx (Guy Harris)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:51:08 -0800 (PST)
> 5) BUG: If I don't enter a filename in the 'begin capture' dialog box,
> why do I lose my data? (using ethereal 0.5.1.)

"tcpview" (a version of which I'd hacked up a fair bit, those changes
being the inspiration for much of the stuff I've added to Ethereal)
saves live captures to a temporary file, and then reads in the temporary
file.  Microsoft's Network Monitor also saves live captures somewhere
anonymous, so you don't have to specify a file name when you do a
capture.

Both of them let you save an existing capture to a file.

I often don't know, when doing a capture, whether I'll want to save it
or not; I may find out the problem just by looking at the live capture. 
It's inconvenient to require that you enter a file name when doing a
capture.