Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] ethereal installation

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gramirez@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:58:02 -0500
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 11:56:04 Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:48:54AM -0500, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> > You need to install WinPcap. Look at the README.win32 file.
> 
> Or, for those who are just downloading the binary, not the source, and
> thus don't have the README.win32 file, look at the page

Nope. The ZIP files contain the README.win32 file.

$ unzip -v ethereal-0.8.10-capture.zip
Archive:  ethereal-0.8.10-capture.zip
 Length  Method   Size  Ratio   Date    Time   CRC-32     Name
 ------  ------   ----  -----   ----    ----   ------     ----
      0  Stored       0   0%  07-05-100  10:49  00000000  
ethereal-0.8.10-capture/
   8931  Defl:N    3882  57%  07-05-100  10:49  f5c5ab3b  
ethereal-0.8.10-capture/README
   3421  Defl:N    1538  55%  07-05-100  10:49  2b54b140  
ethereal-0.8.10-capture/README.win32
 176687  Defl:N   32801  81%  07-05-100  10:49  42107ab6  
ethereal-0.8.10-capture/ethereal.html
 154665  Defl:N   26510  83%  07-05-100  10:49  7aff0f85  
ethereal-0.8.10-capture/tethereal.html
   6339  Defl:N    2298  64%  07-05-100  10:49  1127771c  
ethereal-0.8.10-capture/editcap.html
    350  Defl:N     223  36%  07-05-100  10:49  4cbef7f2  
ethereal-0.8.10-capture/README.gryphon
1552384  Defl:N  565023  64%  07-05-100  10:49  5c5d16c2  
ethereal-0.8.10-capture/ethereal.exe
1396736  Defl:N  505069  64%  07-05-100  10:49  566ee7eb  
ethereal-0.8.10-capture/tethereal.exe
 122880  Defl:N   57543  53%  07-05-100  10:49  402e38e1  
ethereal-0.8.10-capture/editcap.exe
  77824  Defl:N   31878  59%  07-05-100  10:49  ebe5bc8f  
ethereal-0.8.10-capture/gryphon.dll
 ------          ------  ---                              -------
3500217         1226765  65%                              11 files

Can we fix this through programming? I.e., have Ethereal able to dectect the
absence of packet.dll
and give the user the URL?

--gilbert