Ethereal-dev: RE: [ethereal-dev] other sniffers

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From: "Farley, Tim (ISSAtlanta)" <TFarley@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:22:10 -0500
>with - and as long as there's no "snap length" chopping packets short -
>but if you don't know how long the packet is, it's not clear how you'd
>be able to read that file.

Yeah, it had me scratching my head for the same reason.

About the only thing I can think of that you could do with such a file is
pipe it through some sort of general purpose utility like 'grep' or
'strings' to look for stuff.

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