[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 3, 2003, at 9:08 AM, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> Why do we link the MSVC version of ethereal as a GUI app
> with link option "/subsystem:windows"?
>
> It's much easier to use "/subsystem:console". This automatically
> gives us a console

If "automatically gives us a console" means "a console window pops up 
every time you run Ethereal", that's why we do it - to avoid getting a 
console window popped up every time.

I'd rather have it pop up a window of some sort as soon as a message is 
logged - it shouldn't be logging messages every time it's run (if it 
is, I'd consider that a bug - and, yes, this means that dissectors 
shouldn't whine to the console merely because they see a packet they 
don't like).