Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] C++ program using"editcap"

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 20, 2009, at 1:54 AM, Faten SOLTANI wrote:

> I'll need to use the EDITCAP to convert files from ASCII format to  
> pcap
> format, I need a help about writing a C++ program, where I call the
> editpcap function,

Editcap is a program, not a function; you "call" it by using, for  
example, fork()/exec() or vfork()/exec() - or, if you have it,  
posix_spawn() - on UN*X, or CreateProcess() on Windows.  You'd then  
wait for the program to finish and the process running it to terminate.

> and where the input file must be located(in the same
> folder as the function editpcap?).

The input file can be located anywhere; one of the arguments to the  
editcap program is the pathname of the input file.