> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 23:17
> To: Peter Kjellerstedt
> Cc: 'Ashok Narayanan'; ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Proposed change to tethereal hex dump format
>
> > > 0000 00 10 7b 2c 78 c3 00 10 7b 2c 78 d5 08 00 45 00 ..{,x...{,x...E.
> > > 0010 00 74 46 53 00 00 ff 2e 5a e9 0a 01 03 10 0a 01 .tFS....Z.......
> > > 0020 03 0e 10 02 e4 67 ff 00 00 60 00 0c 01 01 e6 00 .....g...`......
> > > 0030 00 01 11 00 00 0a 00 0c 03 01 0a 01 03 10 00 00 ................
> >
> > This is more than 79 characters per line
>
> My xterm is 80 characters wide, and even with the 2 levels of "> ", it
> still fits in the window; the width is
>
> 4 (for the offset)
>
> 2 (white space separator)
>
> 48 (2 digits + one space, times 16 for 16 bytes)
>
> 3 (white space separator
>
> 16 (ASCII text for 16 bytes)
>
> which is 73 bytes.
Well, I guess I cannot count ;)
Though, my comment about being able to read more than one
explicit format still stands.
//Peter
