Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ascend router capture

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From: Ashok Narayanan <ashokn@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 16:25:23 -0400 (EDT)
 >   Stuffing a file descriptor into the "wtap"
 > structure is just a workaround for the fact that "-lzlib" doesn't let
 > you get at the underlying file descriptor.

Yup, it is.

 >  I'm not
 > happy about the progress bar being replaced by a bounce bar, as the
 > latter doesn't tell me even approximately how soon it'll be done.

Last time I asked it didn't seem to be a problem, but I see your
point. I'll work on add open/fdopen support to this.

 > It has changed.  It moved with the code before your checkin - which
 > isn't surprising, as Wiretap doesn't move it, Ethereal moves it, and
 > Ethereal doesn't care what type of capture file it's reading when it
 > updates the progress bar.  (After your change, there isn't a progress
 > bar....)

Actually the progress bar does move - my earlier comment was
wrong. Anyway, this will change again.

-Ashok

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