Ulf Lamping wrote:
>>
>No, at least I'm talking about existing U3 Wireshark package here.
>Where did you found the word "portable"?
OK, but we ARE talking about U3 package, not the standard distro.
>> Or at least it's "supposed" to be portable, and being advertized as
>> designed for USB sticks.
>>
>It's been designed for U3 USB sticks - therefore the name - not for
>common *none U3* sticks.
I've worked a lot with portable software, and usually if it works on
one type of usb drive, it works on all usb drives. I've never seen a
program designed to work only on U3 USB drives, but not regular USB
drives. I mean this is first such case that I've encountered.
>> That's the package that I've been struggling with. This "portable"
>> Wireshark couldn't find its preferences in its own folder and
>>needed to be pointed to its own app folder with command line args
>>:(
>It's perfectly working with U3 USB Sticks AFAIK.
I hear you.
>Go Google yourself for U3 before firing any more of those uninformed
>mails to the list ...
My knowledge of U3 is indeed superficial. In fact, I learned enough
about them to know that I prefer to use regular USB drives rather than
U3. And since I don't really plan on using U3, I'm somewhat relactant
to really research them in depth. But I apologize if my posts showed
lack of knowledge of U3.
>P.S: I guess your demanding tone and uninformed mails won't encourage
>any of the developers to spend some of their own spare time to
>improve the situation here (at least I won't do) ...
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Sorry, I didn't know you were a developer (till you mentioned that it's
you who put in the -P switch which I only saw after my post). I'm new
to this list, and your signiture doesn't mention that you're a
developer. Sometimes users critisize software between themselves just
to get a better understanding of its limitations and weaknesses. Take
it easy. I love Wireshark, and I'm using U3 package after all :)
If developers refused to develop software because somebody was critical
of their work, we probably wouldn't have any software development at
all :)
Besides I didn't critisize your -P switch :) (oh, well, except for the
fact that it doesn't accept the relative paths ;o) ...)
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