Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Install dir for SNMP MIB files on Win32

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:56:09 -0600
On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 15:40:35 Markus Drechsler wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've installed ethereal 0.9.0 on a WinNT machine. Looks very good !
> But the SNMP files were installed to \user\mibs (look at the 'e').
> 
> I've not reviewed the source code, but only a simple text search on the
> executable. So it seems that ehtereal wants to find them in \usr\mibs 
> instead. If I move the files there and ethereal generates a file .index
> This doesn't happen for \user\mibs.
> 
> So it seems to be a little problem but could be fixed besides other
> changes in a future release (if I'm right).
> 
> Currently I'v not verified this on my Linux machines.
>

Yes, the snmp library that is linked in with Ethereal looks for the MIB
files in c:\usr\mibs, but I made a mistake when making the
Ethereal installation package. I'll generate a new package and
upload it so that people won't have to manually move the files
to their proper location.

thanks,

--gilbert