Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Column Widths with -S on 0.6.3

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:22:21 -0700
> What does teh -S option do?  I just tried it for the heck of it, but with
> that option it does not seem to do anything when I tell it to capture.  IT
> stays in the Ready to Load or Capture mode.

It should put up the window with the counts of packets various
types, and update the list of packets as new packets come in.

It should also

	1) get rid of the Capture/Start dialog box

and

	2) update the message in the status line to say "Capturing" or
	   something such as that

but it doesn't.  (Then again, even if you *don't* use the "-S" option,
it doesn't update the message in the status line to say "Capturing"; it
still says "Ready to load or capture".)

It also doesn't work right on FreeBSD, and probably the other BSDs - the
display never updates past the first update.  I've checked into the CVS
tree a fix for that; I can send out a patch to 0.6.3 for this as well.