[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Joerg Mayer wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 03:16:54PM -0500, bugzilla-do-not-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>------- Additional Comments From ulf.lamping@xxxxxx  2005-04-29 15:16 CST6CDT -------
>>It's not that easy.
>>
>>Most of the time spend at program startup is used while registering the
>>dissectors. Registering must be done before examine the commmand line
>>parameters, as some of these parameters might be settings of the dissectors. 
>>
>>Examine the command line parameters before registering the protocols is
>>therefore not possible.
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>
>I don't really understand the problem. Why would anyone want to start
>ethereal without X? That's what tethereal is for. Ethereal failing without
>X is perfectly ok. Or do I get something wrong?
>  Ciao
>      Joerg
>  
>
Well, yes and no.

You wouldn't start Ethereal without X (except for Win32 ;-)

But to get the version information from Ethereal, X would usually not be
required as all the output is just console output.

So it's really not a stopper, but it would be nicer to get version info
without the need of X.

Regards, ULFL