Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Problems / suggestions

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From: Heikki Hannikainen <hessu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:33:49 +0300 (EEST)
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Guy Harris wrote:

> The preference item suggested earlier, letting you specify what
> directory to use for the capture file, is probably the right way to
> handle that.

  Yes, please, that'd be nice. And also a possibility to specify a
non-random file when starting the capture. If you'd happen to a
multi-gigabyte capture, it would go to a random file, then you want to
save it to another file for inspection later, only to find out that the
'save' entry copies the temporary file to a new location and you don't
have the disk space for that. Unless you know how to play tricks with ln,
the temporary file will be unlinked and deleted when you start a new
capture or quit the program.

  - Hessu