Hi Ian,
Thank you for your mail. My problem is that I am
not collecting any data, but are depending on the users of e.g. Ethereal to
provide record files for me. It also means that I am not using Ethereal directly
and are therefor not familiar with it.
You are right the extension does not matter to me -
it is the format, but in different tools the format automatically selects an
extension. But if I read your answer correctly then a .cap file can be opened
and saved again in a different format selected from the list?
And (sorry for being slow in understanding it) the
.cap file can be opened and saved as a file type without extension (could you
give examples of types that saves without extension)
Thank you
Best regards
Niels Steenberg
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Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:54
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Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] File
format
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wrote:
Hi all,
I am making some SW that can use e.g. Ethereal
files and make additional statistics. It has all worked well in
the past but now a user can only save the files in .cap format and I do not
know this file format. Before it was saved without an extension and in a
different format. Can anybody tell me how the file can be saved in the
format without the .cap extension.
Thanks
Best regards
Niels
What do you mean
by "a user can only save the files in .cap format"? This is with
Ethereal? What are you trying to do where you believe you have this
restriction?
As far as I know there's no place in Ethereal that
associates the ".cap" extension with any particular format of file (and I'm
assuming that the format is what's important to you, and that the extension is
totally meaningless). The file saving dialog allows you to select the
file type you want to save as from a drop-down list, and by default saves as
the file format that was opened (if possible/applicable).
Ian
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