[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kenneth Ciszewski wrote:
> An update:  ethereal 0.10.7 runs on on Windows 98.  Reading the 
> readme.win32.txt file indicates (for 0.10.8) possible problems with 
> MSVCRT.dll if the exe was compiled with MSVC++ version 7 instead of 
> version 6.

The Ethereal executables that we release are *supposed* to be compiled 
with MSVC++ v6, for the reasons given in the README.win32 file.  The 
licensing issues alone are sufficient to keep us from using MSVC++ v7 (I 
guess that's a consequence, whether intended or unintended, of 
Microsoft's hatred of the GPL), but the technical reasons are also a 
problem.

If any of the libraries used by Ethereal were built with MSVC++ v7, 
that'd cause problems - but I'd expect those to show up on Windows NT 
4.0/2K/XP/Server 2003 as well.