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[ethereal-dev] Is there any need for "File/Reload" any more?
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Ethereal-dev: July 1999


I think the only thing it was useful for was display filtering, back
when that was done using "pcap" or "wiretap" filtering when reading the
capture file; you'd have to type in a filter, and then do File/Reload to
reload the file, reading only those packets that matched the filter.

We now do display filtering *after* the file has been read in, by
scanning through all the packets we read in, for each one building a
protocol tree, running the filter on it, and putting it into the packet
CList if the filter matched.  You do that by hitting Return in the
packet filter text entry box.

Given that, is there anything for which File/Reload is useful any more?

If not, should we remove it?


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