Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal Version 8.16 Running on Win98 - Saving Colorized Displays

["Terje Trane" <terje_trane@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm.... Did not have a problem creating the dir, though I used the command
line. Open a MS-DOS Prompt Window and do "md c:\.ethereal" or in the Start |
Run box type "command /c md c:\.ethereal". A directory will be made with
long file name .ethereal and a short file name ETHERE~1.

C:\>dir e*

 Volume in drive C has no label
 Volume Serial Number is 1431-1EE5
 Directory of C:\

ETHERE~1       <DIR>        05.04.01   9:25 .ethereal
         0 file(s)              0 bytes
         1 dir(s)        2 241.53 MB free

After you have saved a filter you will get a file in this directory

C:\>dir ethere~1

 Volume in drive C has no label
 Volume Serial Number is 1431-1EE5
 Directory of C:\.ethereal

.              <DIR>        05.04.01   9:25 .
..             <DIR>        05.04.01   9:25 ..
COLORF~1               422  05.04.01   9:41 colorfilters
         1 file(s)            422 bytes
         2 dir(s)        2 241.53 MB free


----- Original Message -----
From: Neil HOLLINGUM
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 2:09 PM
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal Version 8.16 Running on Win98 - Saving
Colorized Displays


Hi

I have been running Ethereal for a short time and with the addition of the
"Decode As" option to set the user defined decoding it has become very
useful to show RTP and RTCP. Indeed it has become a very powerful tool for
me.  However there is one repeated problem.

When I try to save the colorized display settings by clicking the "save"
button on the colorize display window, I get the error window
"Could not open filter file. No such file or directory". Clicking OK reveals
the error "Could not open C:/.ethereal/colorfilters for writing. No such
file or directory".

However Windows 98 will not allow the creation of a directory starting with
a full stop even if I try to create one and I would have expected the file
to be called "C:\Ethereal\Colorfilters" not "C:/.ethereal/colorfilters".  Is
there some way to chance the path to this file?

Best Regards

Neil Hollingum