Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] TCP tools and 8-bit X/window displays

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:23:04 -0800
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:01:02PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> I could, I suspect, give myself an 8-bit X display at work by selecting
> "256 colors" from the "Display Properties" control panel and restarting
> the X server, and I could probably do the same at home by restarting the
> X server with the appropriate command-line option.

I tried that, and was able to get it to draw TCP graphs, so it's not as
simple as "TCP graphs don't work with 8-bit color".