Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Changes to "File/Print" - prints only currently displayed p

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From: Jerry Talkington <jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 09:47:36 -0700
* Guy Harris (gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx) done spit this rhetoric:
> 
> Would it be a problem having "File/Print" print only the displayed
> packets, requiring you to clear the display filter to get them all?

This would be great, as I find myself needing to print out only one or two
packets most of the time.

> 
> I'm also considering an option to let you select whether to print the
> protocol tree with all the items in the detailed display expanded, or
> just the ones expanded in the display; I seem to remember somebody
> asking for that (I'll have to dig through my archives for that).

Since you are considering this, also please consider allowing the printing
of the protocol data portion.  Although it's probably not very important
for most protocols, sometimes with http it makes all the difference...

-- 
Jerry Talkington
NetCache Escalation Engineer
Network Appliance, Inc.

"I love computers, too."
		-Lee Razo