Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal problems

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:27:18 -0700
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:23:36AM -0700, Kevin Humfreville wrote:
> I just installed WinPCap and ethereal, and when I load ethereal, no settings
> changed or anything, I am getting a dos command window, with the following
> code in it:

Does it happen *every* time you start Ethereal?

If so, did you close the DOS command window?

If so, try closing the Ethereal window instead, and starting Ethereal
again, and see if it still gives that warning.

I've checked in a change that should fix this; if the problem is what I
think it is, running Ethereal once and closing it cleanly should make
the problem go away (the problem is probably that you've never run
Ethereal before, so there's no saved window size, and it doesn't handle
the case where there's no saved window size - it tries to use the
default window size, which has a negative height).

> Please note that I am using WindowsXP (on a laptop if it matters).

If the problem is what I think it is, it doesn't - it shouldn't matter
that you're running Windows XP rather than some other version of
Windows, and the only way in which it even matters that it's Windows is
that on UN*X it won't pop up a terminal window of some sort, it'll just
print to the standard output, which means if you run Ethereal from a
terminal it'll print the message to the terminal, and if you run it from
the GUI in a way that it has no terminal as its standard output, the
message won't show up at all, so it'll be less obvious that it's
complaining.