Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] printing tcp streams with ethereal 0.8.1

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:16:39 -0600
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:01:26PM -0600, Marty Leisner wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I just started to use ethereal (this is my work address, I'm on the
> mailing lists at home).
> 
> If the PRINTER isn't in the printcap file, and you try to print
> (I'm using "follow tcp stream"), we get a SIGPIPE and
> it aborts.  (I initially had an empty printcap file, I used lprng)

thanks, this is an error we need to fix.

> I like the way the "follow tcp stream" colorizes input,
> but how do I get this out to the printer (or generate a postscript
> file).

We don't have that feature in Ethereal, yet.

> I have (in preferences/printing):
>         format: postscript
>         print to: file
> but I just see an ascii dump (not a postscript image of the colorized 
> window).

Oops, that's a bug. Thanks for the report.
 
> I also can't follow one side of the conversation (I set a filter expression 
> [which did what I want], but then when I said "follow tcp conversation I 
> get both sides).

Yep, not yet. :)

> I ended up running 2 ethereals, one for each side of the conversation.
> 
> 
> marty           leisner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Don't  confuse education with schooling.
>         Milton Friedman to Yogi Berra

thanks for all the feature requests :-)

--gilbert