Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Read Ethereal file by sniffer Pro

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 09:56:17 -0700
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:13:28PM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> Possibly.  Ethereal can save in some old formats that maybe Sniffer Pro can
> read.
> 
> But why would you want to?  It makes more sense to convert the capture files
> in the other direction.

Not always.  There are still things Sniffer can dissect that we can't -
perhaps those aren't interesting protocols, but I'd rather leave that up
to the users.

Yes, we should try to catch up in places where that's interesting (given
that Ethereal is a volunteer project, of course, "interesting" means
"catches the interest of an Ethereal developer", not "interesting to an
Ethereal user" - sometimes the two happen to both be the case, but
sometimes they aren't), but that's not always the case.