On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 15:36, BROWN, JAMES C wrote:
> I had the same issue and tried several things. Here is what will correct
> this problem.
>
> Leave the dos windows open and go to Ethereal and select EDIT : PREFRENCES.
> In this window there is a box labeled SAVE WINDOW POSITION. Select the
> check box next to it; click APPLY, click SAVE and you won't have this
> problem again.
>
> JCB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:gharris@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 2:27 AM
> To: Ethereal user support
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal problems
>
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:23:36AM -0700, Kevin Humfreville wrote:
> > I just installed WinPCap and ethereal, and when I load ethereal, no
> settings
> > changed or anything, I am getting a dos command window, with the following
> > code in it:
>
> Does it happen *every* time you start Ethereal?
>
> If so, did you close the DOS command window?
>
> If so, try closing the Ethereal window instead, and starting Ethereal
> again, and see if it still gives that warning.
>
> I've checked in a change that should fix this; if the problem is what I
> think it is, running Ethereal once and closing it cleanly should make
> the problem go away (the problem is probably that you've never run
> Ethereal before, so there's no saved window size, and it doesn't handle
> the case where there's no saved window size - it tries to use the
> default window size, which has a negative height).
>
> > Please note that I am using WindowsXP (on a laptop if it matters).
>
> If the problem is what I think it is, it doesn't - it shouldn't matter
> that you're running Windows XP rather than some other version of
> Windows, and the only way in which it even matters that it's Windows is
> that on UN*X it won't pop up a terminal window of some sort, it'll just
> print to the standard output, which means if you run Ethereal from a
> terminal it'll print the message to the terminal, and if you run it from
> the GUI in a way that it has no terminal as its standard output, the
> message won't show up at all, so it'll be less obvious that it's
> complaining.
>
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