Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Redesign of the WHOLE Ethereal main menu

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From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:49:50 -0800
Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:

If tehy are not being displayed due to a display filter, then
they packets have to be dissected so that the display filter can be
evaluated.

The same functions that decode the packets are also preparing the fields of
the packets
so that the filter can be evaluated.
Right, I was thinking about the ones that just aren't on the screen at the time, when you're not using a display filter. Even when you are, you don't have to decode quite as deep for most display filters, no? 

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