Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] How to apply a binary patch?

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

steven igloo wrote:

> Just download an Ethereal binary patch from
> http://ethereal.gds.tuwien.ac.at/lists/ethereal-dev/200311/bin00924.bin.
> Would you please tell me how to apply above patch?

As others have noted, it's just a text file compressed with gzip, and 
the text file is a patch to the Ethereal *source* code.  The file is 
binary, not text, only because it's been compressed; when decompressed 
with something that understands gzip format, it becomes a text file.

It's not a "binary patch" in the sense that it can be applied to a 
binary release of Ethereal; it only applies to the Ethereal source code.

And, again, as others have noted, it doesn't apply to 0.10.8, as it was 
already applied to the Ethereal source code a long time ago, i.e. the 
changes in it are already in 0.10.8.