Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Online Capture to File?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:37:26 -0800
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 01:39:07PM +0200, Karlheinz Mueller wrote:
> May I ask a short question please:
> I am using Ethereal on Microsoft OS and I want to do a longterm capture.
> Therefore I need ethereal to save the captured data online to a file
> on the harddisk.

It's impossible *NOT* to save captured data to a file!  Ethereal always
does so.

By default, it captures to a temporary file, which would probably be in
"/tmp" or "/var/tmp" on UNIX and "c:\temp" on Windows.

If, however, you specify a name in the "File:" box in the "Capture
Options" dialog box that appears when you select "Start" from the
"Capture" menu, it'll save the captured data to the file whose pathname
you've specified.

You can also, when the capture is complete, use the "Save As..." item
under the "File" menu to copy the capture to another file.