Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.99.0 won't do "export as text" in Windows XP ..

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:39:26 +0200 (CEST)
Hi,

Greg Jones beat you to it and already filed a bug report on it:
http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=894

Thanx,
Jaap

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Greg Hill wrote:

> In Ethereal 0.99.0 for Windows XP, when I try to export my packets "as
> plain text" or "as PostScript file" or any of the other cascading Export
> menu options, it fails.
>
> It brings up a small dialog box saying the following:
> The path to the file "" doesn't exist.
>
> It acts as if I have given it a faulty pathname. It completely fails to
> export it at all.
>
> I know that I'm using the "Export" dialog box correctly. For example,
> when I try to export to a filename that already exists, it detects this
> fact and asks me if I want to overwrite it.  So, it definitely knows
> where I am trying to export to.  But when I say "Yes" (to allow the
> overwrite), I get the previously mentioned error message.
>
> This used to work in earlier versions of Ethereal.  It seems like a bug
> in the dialog box itself.
>
> Can someone help me out?
>
> Thanks
>
> Greg