Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] save silently fails on Win XP

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 03:11:04 -0800
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:12:50PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> 	saving the text from "Follow TCP Stream", in which case I again got an 
> alert box, but the file selection dialog didn't stay up, which is 
> arguably a bug;

I've checked in a fix.

> 	"Save Payload to File" for RTP Analysis. where you should get an alert 
> box - I didn't have any RTP captures handy on which to test it;

You do, but it doesn't tell you what the problem is.

> 	"Save selected stream in rtpdump format" for RTP Analysis. where it 
> appears it really *will* fail with no indication of the failure.

It does, in fact, fail silently.

> It does not appear to be checked for the "Save Data as CSV" option for 
> RTP Analysis (but I expect Ethereal would *crash* if that didn't 
> succeed, which is *definitely* a bug).

And, yes, it does crash.