[Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 10:13, Steve Housley wrote:
> 
> 
> 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?

On unix: gzip -dc < ethereal.tar.gz | tar xvf -
(or if you have GNU tar: tar zxvf ethereal.tar.gz)

However, modern versions of WinZip should understand .tar.gz. files just
fine.

--gilbert