[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 02:16:42PM -0500, Andrew C. Feren wrote:
> 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.

In the next release, Ethereal will, on Windows, read stuff from the
".ethereal" subdirectory of your home directory only if the file does
*not* exist in the "Ethereal" subdirectory of your Windows "application
data" directory and *does* exist in the ".ethereal" subdirectory of your
home directory.

Creating a "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Ethereal" directory on your
Windows machine, and copying the configuration files from "~/.ethereal"
to that directory, should fix that problem.  (%USERPROFILE% will
probably be on your local machine, not on your network home directory.)