> I have just discovered Ethereal. The web page gives this as a support news
> letter; is that so?
It's a mailing list for users of Ethereal; as such, it's appropriate
for, among other things, support questions (although if the problem is
clearly a bug, it should probably be reported to
"ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxx", the mailing list for developers).
> The program won't open the designated file for saveing packets. Is that a
> known problem?
>
> If I am on topic, please reply.
It's on-topic, but contains too little information to answer the
question it asks.
Were you trying to save a capture that you'd just made with Ethereal?
Presumably when it failed to allow you to do so, it popped up a message
box with a message; what did the message box say?
The failure may have been the result of a bug - or it may have been the
result of a permissions problem, or of an attempt to save the file in a
capture file format in which it can't be saved (although I think it
won't even offer you the opportunity to do that), or some other such
error; without knowing what problem it reported, I can't say what the
cause of the failure is.