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Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Conversion to DOS sniffer file is wrong under HP-UX and Win

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:30:39 -0500
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 07:53:26AM -0500, olwillm@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> I tried to convert a Windows Netmon capture file using either the graphical
> interface (ethereal) or editcap and it generates a badly formatted output.
> It does not work with ethereal 0.8.7 (binary distribution from
> http://hpux.connect.org.uk/) and the windows 0.8.8 binary distribution. I
> compiled 0.8.4 on my linux Mandrake 7.02 at home and it works fine !
> I saw someone had a similar problem in March. How was it solved ?

If it worked on Unix but not on Windows then we probably have a bug
related to text files vs. binary files. Can you recreate a small
file, both on Windows and on Unix, and send them to ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx?

--gilbert