Ethereal-users: [ethereal-users] Does anybody care about the "-F" flag?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:14:09 -0700 (PDT)
The "-F" flag to Ethereal "specifies that the live packet capture will
be performed in a separate process", so that "it is then possible to
open/reload the file to display the packets actually captured."

The "-S" flag has existed for a while, and, in 0.7.5, was deemed no
longer to be "experimental"; it is similar to "-F", except that the
parent process automatically reads the capture file, and continues
reading from it as long as the capture takes place, so that the packet
display updates without the user having to do anything.

Is there any reason to keep the "-F" flag around, given that we have
"-S", and that the user interface for "-S" seems a bit more convenient?