Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] For TShark, provide a way to control the output format. E.g.
From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:07:26 -0700
On Sep 15, 2011, at 6:39 AM, Chris Maynard wrote:

> But the -e option isn't valid without -T fields, so that implies that -T fields
> was erroneously omitted in the wish list request, does it not?

No.  It could also imply that they wanted to have the "-e" option also work with "-T", but, in the case where "-T text" was specified (or implied by the absence of a "-T" flag) rather than "-T fields", they wanted it to specify protocols or individual fields to expand in the output.