On Dec 8, 2003, at 1:14 PM, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:


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.

I see "-V" as something that matters only for output that can show summaries or detail, such as printable text output; it looks as if PDML is, by definition, detail, so I'd see "-T pdml" as generating the same output regardless of whether "-V" is specified or not.


(I could see somebody asking, when they see

tethereal: Using -Tpdml requires -V

why, if Tethereal knows that you need "-V", it doesn't just turn it on for you rather than telling you that you have to specify it.)

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