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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] ethereal -> wireshark settings?

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:32:43 -0700

On Jun 8, 2006, at 7:18 PM, Eric Wedel wrote:

Not sure if this is politic or not, but it would be convenient if the ethereal settings were automagically imported into wireshark when there are no ws settings.
[Tested 0.99.1p1 under windows.]

I manually copied
  C:\Documents and Settings\ewedel\Application Data\ethereal\cfilters
to
  C:\Documents and Settings\ewedel\Application Data\wireshark\cfilters
and wireshark read them fine.

Yes, it should either try opening "...\ethereal \..."/"~/.ethereal/..." if "...\wireshark\..."/"~/.wireshark/..." fails, or try copying those to the Wireshark location and then try opening them.

On a side note, I'm happy to report that multi-term capture filters don't crash wireshark, at least in my limited testing. That's a vast improvement from 0.99.0.

And you were using the same version of WinPcap in both cases?