Hasn't this to do with the way the command shells in MS DOS/Windows expand
environment variables with percent signs instead of a single dollar sign on
*NIX shells?
I'd suggest to use another argument positioner than '%' (e.g., '@') to see
if that fixes your problem.
Regards,
Olivier
| -----Original Message-----
| From: martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx
|
| Martin Regner wrote:
| > Tom Benton wrote:
| > >
| > > Thank You. What I have discovered is that the windows version
| > > of text2pcap will not work, but the (BSD) UNIX version
| works just fine.
| > >
| >
| > I think I had some problems with text2pcap on Windows98 (I
| used the Swedish Edition) some time ago, but on my Windows
| 2000 (English edition) the same thing was working.
| > When I looked closer (by adding printouts in the code) I
| could see that the program arguments wasn't received in the
| same way on the two OS version I tested this with.
| > The percentage sign was removed or changed to another
| character before being sent to the text2pcap aplication.
| >
| > I didn't investigate this further, but I think I wrote some
| mails to one of the ethereal mailing lists before and after
| I noticed that it seemed that this was a problem with how the
| OS es handled percentage sign.
| >
| > /Martin
| >
| >
|
| And here are links to the messages
|
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200304/msg00148.html
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200304/msg00173.html