Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] What does reload do, and does quit save?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:18:21 -0700 (PDT)
> At 12:49 PM 7/24/00 -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> >Closes the current capture file, reopens it, and reads it in (with the
> >same read filter).
> 
> OK, why do you need to reload?

A question I've asked on a number of occasions myself. :-)

At one point, before Laurent made the "Update list of packets in real
time" stuff work automatically, you could do a capture where the display
could be made to update as new packets arrived - but you had to make the
display update yourself, by re-reading the file to which captured
packets are being written.

With Laurent's changes, that's not necessary, so I'd asked whether
"File->Reload" was necessary any more; some people still wanted it, but
I don't remember why they considered it useful, and it didn't seem
particularly useful to me.

> >> When you quit, does Ethereal offer to save any unsaved capture files?
> >
> >No.

Note that it could be made to prompt with such an offer; would people
prefer that it do so?