Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] What is "File->Save Highlighted" menu item for?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 01:36:49 -0800
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:31:38AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Could someone explain to me, what the "File->Save Highlighted" menu
> item is useful for? Please keep in mind, that this menu item is somewhat
> very uncommon, and even worse, I don't have a clue, what it will really
> do!

I'll let Richard Sharpe explain when it's useful.

What it does is, at least as I understand it, save, in raw binary form,
the bytes that are selected in the hex dump pane.  For example, if you
select bytes with the values FF 46 4F 4F and select that, the file to
which you save will have a 0xFF followed by "FOO" in it.

> I can't see, why this shouldn't be included in the "File->Save
> As"/"File->Save" menu items, using something like a new "Save only
> selected packets" or "Save only highlighted packets" option.

It's very different from the "save packets in capture file format"
functionality you get with "File->Save {As}".