Ethereal-dev: RE: PDML from tethereal, was Re: [Ethereal-dev] New "matches" (PC RE support) pa

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 22:17:59 +0100
I got some brilliant (heh heh) idea: why can't we write PDF instead of or in
addition to PS? It's basically extremely similar to PS... and it's available
to everybody.

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Gilbert Ramirez
| 
| On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 20:24, Guy Harris wrote:
| > Should we force the verbose flag on when "-T ps" or "-T pdml" is
| > specified?  (Actually, does "-T ps" require "-V"?  I think 
| we can print
| > summaries in PostScript from Ethereal - if not, that's 
| arguably a bug.)
| > 
| 
| Verbose flag: I don't know. I chose not to, thinking that unexpected
| behavior is bad; i.e., the use requests one behavior (unknowingly) and
| gets another. It's unimportant to me... if we think -V should 
| be forced
| with -Tpdml, then fine.
| 
| You're right; ethereal *can* print a packet summary in postscript. I
| wasn't aware of that. I'll make a fix for "-Tps". thanks,