Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] 0.10.1 GTK2 and default.tt bug

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From: "Anders Broman" <a.broman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:53:50 +0100
Hi,
I think the problem may arise from an "old" preference file, if you install
on a virgin system I don't think the problem occurs.
Note the "/" in the string "error opening C:\Program
Files\Ethereal\asn1/default.tt, No such file or directory"
Which was the original problem (?).

In a install without the "old" preference file the string is:
"C:\Program\Ethereal\asn1\default.tt"
And no console window is opened.

The discussion about default.tt start around :
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200310/msg00671.html

And
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200401/msg00194.html
give an explanation on what's it used for.

Hope this helps.
Best regards
Anders

>Yes, this string being auto-created when the entry is blank is probably not
a good idea, particularly since this file isn't distributed with Ethereal.
>
>Otherwise, the method of detecting that the file is there and that the
error should be reported is still faulty, as is the auto-generation of the
string >(again, not multi-platform friendly).
>
>Did anyone ever determine where default.tt is supposed to come from in the
first place?  I don't believe anyone knew the last time I asked.
>
>Ian
>
>On Thursday, February 19, 2004, at 07:37AM, Biot Olivier
<Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>|From: Gerald Combs
>>|
>>|Biot Olivier wrote:
>>|
>>|> When I create the asn1 directory and add an empty default.tt 
>>|file in it, the
>>|> problem is gone. Note however that the *plugins* reside in C:\Program
>>|> Files\Ethereal\0.10.1 instead of the C:\Program Files\Ethereal\asn1
>>|> directory.
>>|
>>|You should also be able to work around this by making sure 
>>|"Edit->Preferences->Protocols->ASN1->ASN.1 type table file" is empty.
>>
>>Maybe we should use an empty value as a default for Ethereal?
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Olivier
>>
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