Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Need Help Opening Ethereal Setup!

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:45:06 -0700
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 01:24:16PM -0400, Lawrence Stevenson wrote:
> I have WinPcap 2.1 on my system, but it will not open
> the Ethereal Setup 0.9.5 e.x.e.

WinPcap isn't needed for the setup executable (although 0.9.5 has a bug
that causes it to crash when editing preferences if you don't have
WinPcap installed, so you want it installed anyway).

> (I put periods between
> letters to avoid Yahoo's Security Text Editor.)An
> Error Message box comes up saying that it is not a
> valid Win32 application and so it won't open the
> e.x.e.c.u.t.a.b.l.e file.

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