Perhaps try downloading and installing Ethereal - spending some time
with it might help you understand what your users are doing (and could
be doing differently)?
On Nov 4, 2004, at 12:35 PM, <ns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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