Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] What is the format of the various binary packages for Ethereal

[Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:05 AM 7/30/00 +0200, Laurent Deniel wrote:
>Guy Harris wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 03:06:45PM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> > For example, the HP-UX, Digital UNIX, and so on, versions?
>> 
>> The AIX packages are AIX executables that are self-extracting Zip
>> archives (yes, self-extracting archives on non-Wintel boxes!); see
>> 
>>         http://www-frec.bull.com/docs/install_down.htm
>> 
>> I don't know what the Digital UNIX format is - Laurent?  (I may be able
>> to check the Digital^H^H^H^H^H^H^HTru64 UNIX documentation at work.)
>> 
>
>The OSF1^H^H^H^HDigital^H^H^H^H^H^H^HTru64 UNIX binary distributions are
>based on the setld format distribution kits.

Yes, I figured that they would be setld format files, which dates back to
Ultrix, by the way. 

Actually, I think I have already said so in the latest version of the
User's Guide at http://www.ns.aus.com/ethereal/user-guide/book1.html.

>They are mainly used by Compaq Softwares and I wonder if any third party
>software is distributed in this format.

I think they tried to get third parties to use setld, but none do these
days, and use tar or whatever and shell scripts.

>The setld(8) command is used to manage the software subsets.
>
>The kits(1) command generates setld format distribution kits.
>
>But I prefer to use simple gziped tar files (or self extracting shell
scripts)
>on this system ...
>
>Laurent.
>
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Regards
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