Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Error when opening Ethereal

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From: aferen@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew C. Feren)
Date: 12 Nov 2001 14:16:42 -0500
Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > It will, if it doesn't find a file in that directory, try looking for it
> > in the ".ethereal" directory under your home directory, just in case you
> > happened to have stuff stored there.
> 
> An option is to have it, if it doesn't find the file in the "Ethereal"
> subdirectory of your "application data" directory, but does find it in
> the ".ethereal" subdirectory of your home directory, *copy* it to the
> "Ethereal" subdirectory of your "application data" directory (creating
> those directories as necessary), so that it'll find it there the next
> time, rather than possibly looking on a file server.

Having an option *NOT* to do this would solve an annoying problem that
I have.  Due to the way IT has things configured my UNIX and Windoze
machines share a home directory on the network.  For most things this
works fine, but (depending on where I first ran Ethereal from) the EOL
character(s) will be wrong for one system or the other.  

Of course this will generally only be a problem the first time I start
Ethereal so I suppose I can just arrange to not have a .ethereal
directory.

> 
> I'm somewhat inclined to do that, if it doesn't cause too many
> complications; note, though, that the copy may fail - Ethereal could, in
> that case, pop up a message box telling you about the problem, as a
> warning.  Whether it warns you about the problem or not, it'll still
> read the file from the ".ethereal" subdirectory of your home directory.
> 
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-Andrew Feren
 Cetacean Networks, Inc.
 Portsmouth, NH