Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] File format

[Ian Schorr <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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