Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] An example protocol description file for the identd protocol

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 04:08:50 -0800
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:41:03PM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> I have knocked up an example protocol description file for the identd
> protocol, and am working on a parser (using the PERL XML parser) that can
> parse it and generate a dissector ...

Note that a dissector generator might be able to do less work if it uses
the ptvcursor stuff - see "ptvcursor.c" and "ptvcursor.h".  (An
additional ptvcursor routine to increment the offset, in order to skip
fields, might also be useful.)