Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] What should I be using for BER?

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:16:29 -0800 (PST)
Ronnie Sahlberg said:
> I personally prefer the packet-ber.c interface since i think it is much
> easier to use
> than the asn1.c interface.
>
> packet-ber.c makes it imo much easier to extract the data and also make
> sure everything is assigned a proper display filter
> name.

...and, in the long term, I'd like to get everything that currently uses
asn1.c to use packet-ber.c and then get rid of asn1.c, so I'd prefer that
people use packet-ber.c for new dissectors.