[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.)