Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] new version of tcp graphing module

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From: Pavel Mores <pvl@xxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 18:12:09 +0200
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:06:59AM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This patch looks very interesting.  Can the output
> of these graphs be exported to a format which
> can be included in an academic paper, such
> as Encapsulated PostScript?

The patch itself does not contain this functionality - it just displays
the graph in a window. However, at least on a Un*x machine it is quite
easy to convert an X window to eps format by running this command:

import graph.eps

import is part of ImageMagick suite which is widely available for many
platforms. Using an external program that is does this specific task
well might be considered beneficial from architectural point of view,
too.

So yes, I think it is quite possible to use this as a part of an
academic paper.

> What are the issues preventing this patch from being
> merged into the Ethereal mainline? 

At least some of the maintainers don't seem to be convinced that this
type of functionality belongs to ethereal in the first place. There
might be other minor (mostly implementation) issues that can be worked
out once the decision to merge has been made, I believe.

	pvl