Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Export text file: marked packets ONLY! does not work...keeps saving the entire darn text trace

[Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Theo Pagtzis wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> it gets irritating to count on the capabilities of the tool only to
> realise after 3 hours of hard work that the thing DOESN'T work. The
> export facility is completely neglected!.

Use the source, Luke, uuuh, Theo ...

> 1) The capture and displayed mean absolutely nothing for what it
> actually happens. One creates a filter to display ONLY a certain range
> of packets. Guess what; on the export the _entire_ thing gets saved
> 2) The Marked only packets does not work. You mark some packets and the
> export saves them AAALLL!!! on text.
> 3) The selected packets only mean nothing since there is no distinction
> between mark and select. If one could also add on edit mark all and
> select all (displayed or captured) then maybe this will get some meaning.
> 4) Please please please set a preference tab for exports
>      primarily text
>            To work on traces one DOES need to save only the packet
> summary (so somebody enable config on what to save on the exported text
> by default)
>            Config on what mark and select means on the save of the
> exported text.
>            Ensure a reset of the counters just in case (diplayed and
> captured)
>
> apologies for the rant but somebody heeeelp..
>
> If the above are already addressed somehow on 10.5 please let me know (I
> have 10.5 but cannot see them working)
>
> cheers
> theo
>
>
> Theo Pagtzis wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > while am not on the list, I would like to report an annoying bug on
> > Ethereal that has been slipping of for some time now. Whenever, one
> > filters a trace and tries to export it as text, while the first time the
> > number of diplayed and saved packet summaries is correct, from the
> > second time onwards, this is not happening. The second export (second
> > filter snapshot of the trace) seems to keep the old no. of displayed
> > lines as well as saved.
> >
> > If one could fix that and les us know that would be great.
>
> --
> theo
> Nets & Mobile Systems Group
> UCL-CS
>
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Regards
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