Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Capture Temp file

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From: Jack Jackson <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 14:23:47 -0700
I wasn't clear, they aren't steps, they are three different ways to do what you want. Choose one of them and do only it.

How you do #3 depends on you version of Windows.  In XP:

From the Control Panel, select System. Click on the Advanced tab. Click on the "Environment Variables" button at the bottom. In the System Variables window select the line for PATH. Click Edit. Add the path to the Ethereal directory (without the double quotes), separated from the previous entry by a semi-colon.


At 02:12 PM 5/8/2006, Andrena Lefdahl wrote:
Okay I'm halfway with ya. This is my first time using editcap and I'm
kind of familiar with command prompt. Not sure what step number three
means?

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To: Ethereal user support
Subject: RE: [Ethereal-users] Capture Temp file

When you specify an executable with no path information, Windows will
only
look for the executable in the current directory and in those
directories
mentioned in the PATH environment variable.

You can:

1.  CD to the directory containing editcap (probably "C:\Program
Filed\Ethereal", don't forget the double quotes if there are spaces in
the
path name),
2.  Specify the path to editcap ("C:\Program Files\Ethereal\editcap" -r
c:\capture\tr c:\capture\new 1-10000).
3.  Add the path to the Ethereal directory to the PATH environment
variable.

At 01:35 PM 5/8/2006, Andrena Lefdahl wrote:
>I'm trying to use editcap to break capture into smaller files. When I
go
>to the Windows command prompt and type:
>Editcap -r c:capture\tr c:\capture\new 1-10000
>
>Why do I get this error:
>"editcap is not recognized as and internal or external command?"
>
>Thanks in Advance