Ethereal-dev: Re: PDML from tethereal, was Re: [Ethereal-dev] New "matches" (PCRE support) pat

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 23:01:42 -0000
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 15:41, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Dec 8, 2003, at 1:14 PM, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 20:24, Guy Harris wrote:
> >> Should we force the verbose flag on when "-T ps" or "-T pdml" is
> >> specified?  (Actually, does "-T ps" require "-V"?  I think we can 
> >> print
> >> summaries in PostScript from Ethereal - if not, that's arguably a 
> >> bug.)
> >>
> >
> > Verbose flag: I don't know. I chose not to, thinking that unexpected
> > behavior is bad; i.e., the use requests one behavior (unknowingly) and
> > gets another. It's unimportant to me... if we think -V should be forced
> > with -Tpdml, then fine.
> 
> I see "-V" as something that matters only for output that can show 
> summaries or detail, such as printable text output; it looks as if PDML 
> is, by definition, detail, so I'd see "-T pdml" as generating the same 
> output regardless of whether "-V" is specified or not.
> 
> (I could see somebody asking, when they see
> 
> 	tethereal: Using -Tpdml requires -V
> 
> why, if Tethereal knows that you need "-V", it doesn't just turn it on 
> for you rather than telling you that you have to specify it.)
> 
> 

That makes sense. Okay. I'll make the change.

--gilbert