On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:19:42PM -0600, Richard A Painter wrote:
> on win98 first edition i get the following error message dialog at the start of
> the capture:
>
> The file "D:\tmp/etherXXXXa07251" could not be opened: Uncompression error:
> buffer error.
>
> this happens every time AND althouth the capture packet counts are updating
> none are displaying and do not display after stopping the capture.
Is that file still in D:\tmp\etherXXXXa07251 (or whatever the file name
is)?
If so, what happens if you start Ethereal and then tell it to open that
file?
> this *appears* to have an incorrect folder separator character "/" for
> windows.
Incorrect, but it still works. That's not related to the problem you're
seeing. I've checked in a change that should make it use "\" on
Windows.
> any ideas on how to get this fixed?
No, as I have no idea what's causing it, and haven't seen it myself. We
might have to get a copy of the file in order to figure out why zlib
thought it was a compressed file.
