On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 10:13, Steve Housley wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am carrying out an investigation to see how easy it is to add a new protocol > dissector to a Windows based build of the Ethereal analyzer. From reading the > various documentation it is not exactly clear how I get the source code for > Ethereal on to my Windows 2000 PC in order to do the build with the new > dissector. I see there are files ending in ......tar.gz but I cannot get > anything out of them using WinZip. I transfered the .tar.gz to my Unix system > and used gzip -d and although I could see a whole lot of concatenated listings I > couldn't see the individual source files. By the way I don't have CVS either. > > What is the easiest way for me to extract the complete set of source files and > their associated directories so that I can do a build? Am I on the right track? > Is there a need to do a complete build if you're adding a new dissector?
On unix: gzip -dc < ethereal.tar.gz | tar xvf - (or if you have GNU tar: tar zxvf ethereal.tar.gz) However, modern versions of WinZip should understand .tar.gz. files just fine. --gilbert
