[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:39:18AM -0400, Corey Miller wrote:
> I've checked every piece of documentation I can think to check and have
> not seen any mention of being able to set it to automatically scroll.  I
> find it hard to believe that such a cool feature can not be set without
> having to manually push some buttons.

Perhaps the reason why no documentation says there's a way to set it
from the command line to automatically scroll is that, believe it or
not, there's no way to set it from the command line to automatically
scroll.

> Can anyone offer any assistance with this?

Yes.

The variable that controls whether it scrolls automatically is
"auto_scroll_live"; add to the "getopt()" loop in "gtk/main.c" another
command-line flag, which sets "auto_scroll_live", and you can set it,
from the command line, to automatically scroll.

Don't forget to update the man page in "doc/ethereal.pod.template" while
you're at it.

> Thank you very much!

You're welcome.