[Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Joerg Mayer wrote:

> The problem with file.c still persists when I enter the filename from
> the command line and then "save to" via the gui. This is caused by the
> file requester always returning an absolute path. I've created a very
> preliminary patch that resolves this. I don't know whether this has any
> chance of working with Windows too, or if I should put a #ifdef Unix
> around the new code. Please let me know how to improve this patch. I'm
> also planning to handle the error case differently: Create a temporary
> file, write to that and after that unlink the old one and rename the
> temp file.  As this replaces Ethereal's input file, I guess I have to
> take care of that. Is this more than closing and reopening the file?

OK, the problem was that I did not test thoroughly. I did something like 
ethereal -n -r ~/some path ... :-(

Regards
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