[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> does Ethereal have the ability to save trace data continuously to hard disk
> into sequentially / multiple trace files?

Continuously, no.  It does have the ability to save to multiple files,
but only as part of a "ring buffer", with a maximum of a small number of
files - it wraps around to overwrite the first file.

> If not:
> 
> Do you plan to implement this feature?

It may be implemented at some point - at least some of the
infrastructured needed to support it is already present as part of the
ring buffer code (a maximum file size is used to specify when Ethereal
should start writing to a new file).

There are no formal plans to implement it, however.  (There are
relatively few formal plans to do *anything* in Ethereal - features
are added as people contribute code to implement them.)