Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Three big problems

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From: "McNutt, Justin M." <McNuttJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 07:55:00 -0600
> I understand your requirement and it sounds like a great 
> utility. Many a
> time I've been stuck in a testbed with a large trace file and 
> a stack of
> floppies, and I spend far too much time fluffing about with 
> WinZip.  Short
> of adding new features to editcap.c (which isn't too 
> insurmountable a task
> if you know c), I can suggest that you make better use of editcap. 
> 
> This version of the split utility will mean that your big 
> trace file will
> only need to be read log2(n) times rather than log2(n) times. 
> You'll need to
> tweak the "copy" to "cp" if your lucky enough to use a real operating
> system. :-)

[code snipped]
I am indeed blessed with a few systems that use 'cp'.  :-)  Thanks for the code snippet.  I'm trying various ways of doing this.  If I get this algorithm working here, shall I repost the complete version back to the list?

--J