["Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Garrick Ing said:
> What I wanted to do was open the trace file in ethereal and then export
> it to a text file. However, I believe the file is too large causing
> ethereal to crash when I attempt to open this file.

There are reasons other than "the capture file is too big" why Ethereal
might crash reading a capture file.  Try doing, for example

    tethereal -V -r {the file} >/dev/null

on UN*X or, on Windows, maybe you can redirect to the Windows null device;
if Tethereal also crashes, then it's a dissector bug.  (If it doesn't
crash, it might still be a dissector bug.)