>
> > Is print-to-file really that unintuitive?
>
> For some people, it appears to be, as they ask about "saving
> as text".
> A reply to at least one such message (which wasn't sent to the list,
> but the reply was) is at
>
> http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200308/msg00292.html
>
> and another message asking how to "save the file as text" is at
>
> http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200308/msg00176.html
>
> > I use it a fair lot (sometimes forcing expansion, sometimes not,
> > sometimes
> > hex also, sometimes not) and it works quite nicely.
> >
> > 'course, I come to it as a developer..
> >
> > Perhaps something like a "save as text..."
>
> Or, as per my suggestion, "Save dissection as text", to make it clear
> that they're saving the results of the dissection, *not* the raw data.
Although, if all the cited requests are for "save as text" then perhaps that
is more clear, if less precise. :-)
Either way, as long as it doesn't lose (or bury..) functionality then I'm
happy.
Perhaps the more interesting request (msg00176) is to "save [xxx] as text"
from tethereal. There it might be thought of as "convert to text." And
then tethereal's present filtering machinery could presumably be applied
during the "conversion." Not at all sure how much work that is though, I
haven't really studied the console-mode side of things. Packet expansion
options would probably be minimal in this mode however (maybe all/summary,
hex/no hex?).
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