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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Mapping Interface in Ethereal to physical interface...

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:05:52 -0700
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:53:37PM -0700, Jack Jackson wrote:
> There is a slight bug with this in Ethereal 0.9.5, at least on Win2000.
> 
> The first time the Capture dialog box is opened after starting Ethereal it 
> does show the human-readable form.  The second and subsequent times it 
> shows the '\Device\Packet...' form.  The drop-down list always shows the 
> human readable form.

0.9.5 isn't the current release; one shouldn't be using it on Windows,
one should be using 0.9.6.  Is the bug still present in 0.9.6?  (I seem
to remember Gerald checking in a fix for it.)