Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] SNMP related messages in win32 console?!?

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:30:22 -0600
Guy Harris wrote:
> Gerald Combs wrote:
> 
>> I checked in a fix last week that uses a semicolon-separated list by
>> default under Windows.  If this is the one you're thinking of, it will
>> be in 0.10.8.  You're correct about pre-existing colons -- if they're
>> present in your preferences file you'll have to replace them with
>> semicolons.
> 
> 
> Should packet-snmp.c turn all colons in the path string to semicolons on
> Windows, and turn all semicolons to colons on UN*X, before handing it to
> the SNMP library?  (It wouldn't actually change the preferences file
> item itself.)

Probably.  It'd fix OID resolution under Windows for many people.  It
would cause problems if you had a semicolon in your MIB filename on UN*X
or a colon in your MIB filename on Windows, neither of which seems very
likely.