Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Patches to use default directory

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:38:32 -0700
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:03:39PM +0100, Graeme Hewson wrote:
> Currently Ethereal sets and uses a default directory for reading and 
> writing, but only in some places.  This set of patches extends the 
> setting of the default directory to the -w option as well as the -r 
> option, and causes all file dialogs to use and set the default 
> consistently.  (I haven't changed the Preferences/Printing/File dialog, 
> though, as that's a special case.)
> 
> There's also a fix for a bug where Ethereal was issuing the message 
> "Ring buffer requested, but capture isn't being saved to a permanent 
> file" even though a file was specified with -w.

Checked in.