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Changes made to the file appear in a list in the left pane. You can click on each item to see details in the right pane
about what was changed for each item. You simply check the boxes next to the changes you want to keep. Once
you decide what changes to keep, select one of the following:
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Save To This File – Saves the changes you have made to the current capture file.
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Save As
– Saves the changes to a new file.
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Cancel the Close Operation – Closes the file and returns you back to the display. No changes are saved.
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Discard Changes – Closes the file without saving any of the changes made to the notes, bookmarks, or
protocol stack.
6.3 Loading and Importing a Capture File
6.3.1 Loading a Capture File
From the Control Window:
1. Go to the File menu.
2. Choose a file from the recently used file list.
3. If the file is not in the
File
menu list, select
Open Capture File
from the
File
menu or simply click on the
Open
icon on the toolbar.
4. Capture files have a .cfa extension. Browse if necessary to find your capture file.
5. Click on your file, and then click Open .
6.3.2 Importing Capture Files
1. From the
Control window , go to the File menu and select Open Capture File or click on the Open
icon on the toolbar.
2. Left of the
File name
text box, select from the drop-down list
Supported File Types
box to
All
Importable File Types
or
All Supported File Types (*.cfa, *.log, *.txt, *.csv, *.cap)
. Select the file
and click
Open
.
The analyzer automatically converts the file to the analyzer's format while keeping the original file in its original
format. You can
save the file in the analyzer's format, close the file without saving it in the analyzer's format, or
have the analyzer automatically save the file in the analyzer's format (see the System Settings to set this option).
All of these options keep your original file untouched.
When you first open the file, the analyzer brings up the Protocol Stack window and ask you what protocol
decodes, if any, you want to use. You must choose a protocol decode at this point for the analyzer to decode the
data in the file. If you open a file without using any decodes, and decide later that you want to apply a decode,
choose
Reframe from the File menu on the Control window.
At present, the analyzer supports the following file types:
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Frontline Serialtest* Async and Serialtest ComProbe
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for DOS – requires the .byt for data and the .tim for
timestamps (see note on importing DOS timestamps ).
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