Thanks a lot Bill! I was working on this myself and found out already that commenting out the ascend_open item in open_routines_base[] in wiretap/file_access.c helps solve the problem and hence the conflict must lie with that code.
I have updated by SVN copy, recompiled and tested (on Windows) and it is now detecting the files properly! Point taken about opening a bug the next time... but many thanks for fixing this so quickly anyway! Best regards, Abhik. On 10/12/07, Bill Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Abhik Sarkar wrote: > > > > For a few versions now (since 0.99.5), I have been unable to open > > OpenVMS tcptrace files using Wireshark. A sample file is attached. In > > some cases, the File Open dialog preview shows is as an invalid Endance > > ERF file, sometimes an invalid Lucent/Ascend format and so on. > > > > I guess it is because the heuristics of one wiretap file format reader > > is better than the others in case of plain text files. Is there some way > > this can be improved or it there something wrong with the capture > itself? > > > > I've tightened the heuristic used to identify Lucent/Ascend capture > files so that now your example capture is no longer identified as a > Lucent/Ascend file but is correctly identified as a VMS TCPIPTRACE > capture file. > > The fix will be available once 0.99.7 is released (or you can obtain or > build a Wireshark development version: SVN #23152 or newer). > > If you have examples of other VMS TCPIPTRACE files which are > mis-identified (eg: as an ERF file), please let us know. > (Note that the code to process capture ERF files has very recently been > changed so it's possible that the situation has already improved in this > case). > > [For future reference: please use the Wireshark bugzilla > (bugs.wireshark.org) to report problems and provide example capture > files]. > > Thanks > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev >
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