[<ns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

 

Thank you for your mail. My problem is that I am not collecting any data, but are depending on the users of e.g. Ethereal to provide record files for me. It also means that I am not using Ethereal directly and are therefor not familiar with it.

 

You are right the extension does not matter to me - it is the format, but in different tools the format automatically selects an extension. But if I read your answer correctly then a .cap file can be opened and saved again in a different format selected from the list?

 

And (sorry for being slow in understanding it) the .cap file can be opened and saved as a file type without extension (could you give examples of types that saves without extension)

 

Thank you

 

Best regards

 

Niels Steenberg

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Ian Schorr

To: Ethereal user support

Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:54 PM

Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] File format

ns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi all,

 

I am making some SW that can use e.g. Ethereal files and make additional statistics. It has all worked well in the past but now a user can only save the files in .cap format and I do not know this file format. Before it was saved without an extension and in a different format. Can anybody tell me how the file can be saved in the format without the .cap extension.

 

Thanks

 

Best regards

 

Niels

What do you mean by "a user can only save the files in .cap format"?  This is with Ethereal?  What are you trying to do where you believe you have this restriction?

As far as I know there's no place in Ethereal that associates the ".cap" extension with any particular format of file (and I'm assuming that the format is what's important to you, and that the extension is totally meaningless).  The file saving dialog allows you to select the file type you want to save as from a drop-down list, and by default saves as the file format that was opened (if possible/applicable).

Ian

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