Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Printing on Win2K causes Ethereal to crash

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From: "Graham Bloice" <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:13:58 -0000
> Im runing Ethereal 0.8.16 with the GTK+ libraries on Windows 2000
> Professional.  Printing a capture with approximately more than
> 300 frames as
> Displayed, without Hex code (Not the Summary), causes Ethereal to
> close and
> only a section of the frames are printed.
>
> If I print it to a text file, I can see that it just stops in the
> middle of
> the output process.
>
> I'm running it on two computers, both Windows 2000 Professional, in a lab
> environment and both does the same.  It did work previously on one of the
> computers, but because it is in a lab environment, I had to format the
> computer and reinstall everything and since then I started getting this.
>
> There is nothing else installed, except Ethereal and all of its
> components.
>
> The Ethereal Non-Capture - version does the same, from a saved capture.
>
> The printing also does not stop at exactly the same frame everytime,
> depending on the selection of the frames that I expand to be printed.
>
> Anyone else getting this?
> Any ideas on how to solve this?

Just tried it here with same setup.  Captured 500 frame file, printed it to
text file with all frames expanded, all appears OK.

Can you send the capture file to the list ?

Graham