Ethereal-users: [ethereal-users] Ethereal for win32

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 14:24:48 -0500
Necessity is the mother of invention. A guy at work needed to read
Sniffer Pro files on his Win32 box, but he didn't have Sniffer Pro. So I
hacked up ethereal-0.6.1 to run on win32. It uses the win32 port of gtk
(there's a link to that project on www.gtk.org).

I have removed the packet capture routines from this port, since we
don't have libpcap for win32. This ethereal is read-only. But since it
has wiretap compiled in, it can read a lot.

This is a very quick-and-dirty port. I haven't gotten gtk/win32 to print
the hex dump in a fixed-width font, e.g.

This version of ethereal doesn't accept command-line arguments, since I
didn't have a getopt routine available. :(  Run ethereal.exe, and use
the File | Open menu item to load a file.

To use, unzip this file. Ethereal.exe needs the *dlls that are in this
file. Also, make sure you have your HOME environment variable set to a
valid path. Ethereal will bomb at the very beginning if you don't.

Later I'll clean up my patch and put it into cvs.

--gilbert


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