Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] How to apply a binary patch?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:35:15 -0800
steven igloo wrote:


Just download an Ethereal binary patch from
http://ethereal.gds.tuwien.ac.at/lists/ethereal-dev/200311/bin00924.bin.
Would you please tell me how to apply above patch?
As others have noted, it's just a text file compressed with gzip, and the text file is a patch to the Ethereal *source* code. The file is binary, not text, only because it's been compressed; when decompressed with something that understands gzip format, it becomes a text file.
It's not a "binary patch" in the sense that it can be applied to a binary release of Ethereal; it only applies to the Ethereal source code.
And, again, as others have noted, it doesn't apply to 0.10.8, as it was already applied to the Ethereal source code a long time ago, i.e. the changes in it are already in 0.10.8.