Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] static vs dynamic column width

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From: Laurent Deniel <deniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:23:47 +0200
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> However, I noticed in one test I was doing of a "-S" capture that if you
> run without "-n", and some of the packets come from or go to addresses
> with really long fully-qualified DNS names, you can end up with rather a
> lot of real estate taken up by the source and/or destination addresses
> when the autosizing is done.
> 
> Would it be better to make those particular columns not auto-resize, but
> instead stick with the current static sizes? 

Sounds good.

> Or are people willing to
> just adjust the column sizes if they don't want those columns being that
> wide?

Or is it possible to not autoresize some columns if the user has changed their
widths ? Saving columns widths in the preference file could allow the auto
resizing process to only change the non user-fixed columns ...

Laurent.

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