[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 04:28:13PM -0400, Patrick W Richardson wrote:
> Hi, can I use editcap as a stand-alone program to convert Sniffer's .cap
> files into a readable format? I'm trying to extract the raw hex data from a
> large number of .cap files that Sniffer captured for analysis, so dropping
> them one by one into Ethereal or Sniffer is impractical. Maybe I could just
> use the ngsniffer portion of the wiretap library since I'm only concerned
> with one type of file? I'm not a particularly experienced programmer, and
> I'm having some trouble understanding the code. Sorry if this is a simple
> question.

The correct command line tool to convert sniffer traces to ascii is
tethereal -V -r <infile>
If you want to change it to pcap format, editcap is the right tool.
We don't have a tool to convert the format to simple hex dump but it
shouldn't be hard to add a format like that to the wiretap library.

 Ciao
     Joerg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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