Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Re: [ethereal-users] Changes to "File/Print" - prints only cu

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From: Jerry Talkington <jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:02:44 -0700
* Guy Harris (gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx) done spit this rhetoric:
> > Since you are considering this, also please consider allowing the printing
> > of the protocol data portion.  Although it's probably not very important
> > for most protocols, sometimes with http it makes all the difference...
> 
> I checked in a change to have "dissect_http()" use "dissect_data()" to
> put in the entry for the raw data, rather than doing so itself; that
> keeps us from saying "1 bytes", and also means that the data gets dumped
> when you "print" the packet (just out of curiousity, how often do people
> print packet data to a printer, and how often do they "print" it to a
> file?).

Great!  I almost never use a printer in event, and haven't used one with
ethereal, but I can see certain circumstances when that would come in
handy.

-- 
Jerry Talkington
NetCache Escalation Engineer
Network Appliance, Inc.

"I love computers, too."
		-Lee Razo