["Steve Housley" <Steve_Housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am carrying out an investigation to see how easy it is to add a new protocol
dissector to a Windows based build of the Ethereal analyzer. From reading the
various documentation it is not exactly clear how I get the source code for
Ethereal on to my Windows 2000 PC in order to do the build with the new
dissector. I see there are files ending in ......tar.gz but I cannot get
anything out of them using WinZip. I transfered the  .tar.gz to my Unix system
and used gzip -d and although I could see a whole lot of concatenated listings I
couldn't see the individual source files. By the way I don't have CVS either.

What is the easiest way for me to extract the complete set of source files and
their associated directories so that I can do a build? Am I on the right track?
Is there a need to do a complete build if you're adding a new dissector?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve H.