Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 964] Win98SE: Can't get pathname of Ethereal: GetModuleFil

Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:27:32 +0000 (GMT)
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=964





------- Comment #15 from jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx  2006-09-19 02:27 GMT -------
(In reply to comment #14)
> Don't quite agree... there are a lot of us still using Ethereal/Wireshark on
> old boxes running old OS's.  Now I know that Windows 98SE is not the sexiest OS
> there is these days, but I think it would be worth a look over to see if it can
> be fixed without too much blood, sweat and tears.  I agree that no-one is going
> to burn lots of resources on it, but closing it without looking at it seems a
> bit like a cop-out ;-)  I have every faith in you guys.
> 
> Just my two eurocents worth!

Sorry, I am just repeating what I've read in the mailing list and Wiki,
particularly this thread:

http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200608/msg00692.html


>From that message:

~~~
- GTK2.8 (and higher) definitely won't even work with 9x
- WinPcap no longer actively supports Win9x (so it may or may not work)
- Microsoft don't support 9x any longer
~~~

Plus it seems no Wireshark developer even has access to a Win98 system so they
can't even _try_ to support it, even if they wanted to and even if the
tools/libraries Wireshark needs supported Win98.


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