Ethereal-announce: [ethereal-announce] Ethereal 0.8.3

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 17:04:00 -0600
Ethereal 0.8.3 addresses various small problems with the previous version, 0.8.2.
The two new features are support for TFTP Option Extensions (RFC 2437) and
support for reading NetXRay WAN traces.

The Ethereal web page is at http://ethereal.zing.org/

You can download 0.8.3 from
http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/ethereal-0.8.3.tar.gz

A 17 KB patch (compressed) is available from:
http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/ethereal-patch-0.8.2-to-0.8.3.bz2

The (read-only) win32 version is avaiable from:
http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/win32/ethereal-0.8.3.zip.

If you download the win32 version, be sure to read the small amount of
documentation in the zip file, and to have the requisite DLLs available in
http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/win32/gtk-libs-19990828.zip


Overview of changes in Ethereal 0.8.3:
* Win32 path delimiter fixes 
* clnp fix 
* tethereal initialization fix 
* Debian packaging files 
* NFS readdir* segfault fix 
* file_seek() fix
* "struct timeval"/"struct bpf_timeval" fix 
* TFTP Option Extension (RFC 2437) support
* Menu fixes 
* PPP sequence number fix 
* Support for NetXRay WAN traces 
* X.25 fix 
* TCP Follow EBCDIC toggle fix 
* New get_home_dir() function for HOME env var
* Additional NLPIDs 
* New "ethereal_static" make target 
* Capture window close button fix 
* Plugin directory symlink scanning fix 
* Add SNMP trap port to udp dissector 

--gilbert