[Frank Singleton <frank.singleton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> 

> 
> Is that file a *requirement*?  If so, one should be supplied with
> Ethereal, even if it's empty.  If not, the dissector should complain
> only if the file exists but can't be opened, and the complaint should
> include the result of "strerror(errno)", so you know *why* it can't be
> opened.
> 
> In any case, the file should probably be looked for somewhere other than
> in whatever directory you happen to be in when you're running Ethereal -
> for example, in the directory where other Ethereal global configuration
> files are stored.


Hi,

File IOR reading is early code, and should really have a file selection
menu. For the meantime, I will modify the code to behave as you
suggested above.

/Frank..


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