Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] FW: API ??

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 02:38:45 -0800
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:17:31PM +0200, Israel wrote:
> Does the ethereal have an API interface  , that enabling other programs to
> control it ?
> 
> ( to do start ,stop , cehck packets ... ) ?
> 
> I didn't find a thing on it in the Documentation.

That's because it doesn't have one; at best, the other program could run
Ethereal with a function such as "system()", but that doesn't let it
start or stop it.

It's not a KParts/Bonobo/COM/... object, alas.  You'll probably have to
find some other way of doing what you want to do.