Ethereal-dev: Re: RE : [Ethereal-dev] application path of ethereal in windowsregistry

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:49:20 -0700 (PDT)
Eric Wedel said:
> Possibly I'm coming in mid-conversation here, but from my own
> perspective it would be really nice if the installer could overwrite
> the existing mapping for .cap (or whatever).  At our site, a bug
> database often saves .cap files collected by netmon, and I personally
> much prefer to open them using ethereal.  :-)
>
> Having the extension map to ethereal would save steps there.
> Time and installer features permitting, this could of course be optional.

Applications that believe that they know better than I do what application
I should use for a given file type and blithely override existing
associations somewhat irritate me (MP3 players have been a particular
source of irritation for me on Windows), so if we're to do that at all, we
should at least allow the user to specify at installation time whether the
Ethereal installer *should* override existing associations.