Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Re: Buglet with ethereal-0.8.2?

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 05:14:22 -0600
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 02:27:10AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> > "File:Reload" does *not* clear the display filter, so if you have a
> > display filter set that shows only some packets, after a "File:Reload"
> > those will be the only packets displayed.
> 
> Speaking of "File:Reload", given that it doesn't clear the display
> filter (and it'd be overkill to make it do so - clearing the display
> filter with, say, the Reset button does a good-enough job of, umm,
> clearing the display filter; re-reading the file simply isn't necessary
> in order to just clear the filter), and that it's no longer needed in
> order to follow a live capture in the display, is there any reason to
> keep it around?

Not that I can think of. It can disappear, since it's reason for
existence was for the enabling the display filter back when we used
libpcap for display filtering, and literally had to reload the trace
file via libpcap.

--gibert