Add instructions for using the installation package.

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@@ -1,4 +1,67 @@
-$Id: README.win32,v 1.22 2001/04/09 06:12:51 guy Exp $
+$Id: README.win32,v 1.23 2001/04/10 12:29:22 gram Exp $
+
+Installing Ethereal, Tethereal, and Editcap on Win32
+====================================================
+These are the instructions for installing Ethereal
+from the installation executable that is provided on
+the Ethereal website and any of its mirrors.
+
+The installation package allows you to install:
+
+	o Ethereal - the GUI version
+	o Tethereal - the console, line-mode version
+	o Editcap - a console, line-mode utility to convert
+		capture files from one format to another.
+		(The same functions are available in Ethereal)
+
+Additionally, the installation package contains a "plugins"
+option, which installs the Gryphon and MGCP dissector plugins
+for use with Ethereal and Tethereal.
+
+The "Debug PDB Files" are useful to install if you are experiencing
+a crash when running and Ethereal. Dr. Watson or your debugger
+can use the information in these files to provide useful information
+to the Ethereal developers that will help them pinpoint the problem.
+However, for general usage of Ethereal, these files are not
+necessary. In the future, we may package them separately from
+Ethereal.
+
+In the past, two versions of Ethereal binaries were published -- a
+version that could capture packets and a version which could not.
+The latter is useful if you're only reading files produced by
+another product (e.g., a sniffer, firewall, or intrustion detection system)
+and did not wish to install WinPcap, the library Ethereal uses
+to capture packets on Win32 platforms.
+
+Now that WinPcap 2.1 has been released as a DLL, Ethereal can
+detect its presence at run time. Thus, only one version of
+the Ethereal binaries need to be shipped.
+
+If you don't want to capture packets, just install the Ethereal
+package. If you do want to capture packets, install Ethereal *and*
+install WinPcap 2.1, available from:
+
+	http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap/
+
+If you already have WinPcap 2.0 installed, you need to un-install
+it and install WinPcap 2.1.  If you use other applications
+that use WinPcap 2.0, you will have to decide which applications
+to keep, since WinPcap 2.0 and WinPcap 2.1 cannot be installed
+on the same system at the same time.
+
+If Ethereal is not capturing packets and you have WinPcap installed,
+you can test your WinPcap installation by installing WinDump
+(TCPdump for Windows) ported by the same folks who make WinPcap. It's at:
+
+	http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/windump/
+
+They also make Analyzer, a GUI sniffer for Win32:
+
+	http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/analyzer/
+
+The rest of this documentation is only interesting if
+you want to compile Ethereal yourself.
+
 
 Running Ethereal, Tethereal, and Editcap on Win32
 =================================================
@@ -29,8 +92,8 @@ Yes, the location of plugins needs to be more flexible.
 Make sure the glib and gtk DLL's are in your path - i.e., that your path
 includes the directory (folder) or directories (folders) in which those
 DLLs are found - when you run Ethereal.  This includes gtk-*.dll,
-glib-*.dll, gmodule-*.dll, gdk-*.dll, and gnu-intl.dll.  As of the
-20000805 GTK+/GLIB distribution, gthread-*.dll is no longer needed.
+glib-*.dll, gmodule-*.dll, gdk-*.dll, gnu-intl.dll, and iconv-*.dll.
+As of the 20000805 GTK+/GLIB distribution, gthread-*.dll is no longer needed.
 
 The Win32 Binary distribution, available from
 
@@ -49,14 +112,6 @@ Ethereal Version		GTK+/GLIB version
 
 Capturing Packets
 -----------------
-Remember, if using the the Win32 Binary distribution, available from
-
-	http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32
-
-there are two separate packages, one with non-capturing tools, and
-one with capturing tools. Install the appropriate package. The
-capturing version requires WinPcap 2.1, the non-capturing version does not.
-
 In order to capture with Win32, you need to install the NDIS
 packet capture driver for your particular Win32 OS; drivers for Windows
 9x, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 2000 can be downloaded from the
@@ -64,16 +119,6 @@ WinPcap home page:
 
 	http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/winpcap/
 
-If Ethereal is not capturing packets, you can test your WinPcap
-installation by installing WinDump (TCPdump for Windows) ported by the
-same folks who make WinPcap. It's at:
-
-	http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/windump/
-
-They also make Analyzer, a GUI sniffer for Win32:
-
-	http://netgroup-serv.polito.it/analyzer/
-
 
 Compiling the Ethereal distribution from source
 ===============================================