Ethereal-users: [ethereal-users] Some Questions

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From: Schneider Ralf <ralf.schneider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:40:22 +0200
Hi,
first of all thanks a lot for the quick response! Since I started working in
'big' company ( Alcatel)
I'm not used to that anymore. But I appreciate VERY much.

1.  I really need ESIS analysis done by the machine and not by me --
Question: Is there any place 
     about OSI Documentation that is freely available? It seems quite
impossible to get real infos.
     I would like to write some small stuff to encode the options in ISIS
also. ( As a starter )
2.  Therefore I would like to get the current developer Sources via anonymus
CVS. I followed the 
     instructions and also get the login prompt. But after hitting return I
get a 'connection refused error'
     I'm using 1.10.5. - any idea why I can't go in? 
     I would like to sync my changes to your's and avoid wasting time with
merging code.
     Is someone working at all on the OSI code ??
3.  Questions:
     I would also like to add the 'Load, (save), SaveAs Filter File'. I plan
to put it into the filter window 
     where the save Button already is. But the 'Select a file' dialog is
somewhat hardcoded with the 
     name of the window.    There are two possibilities and I don't like
both of them:
     a) re-design the Interface to add multiple window headers etc.. ( I
don't know the SW structure 
         good enough to avoid problems with capture file loading )
     b) 'cut and paste' and modify the necessary stuff ( I hate to merely
duplicate code and I'm almost fighting
         with memeory space -- my traces are about 20-30 MByte )
     In the first place I will duplicate.
4.  Is it really necessary or even usefull to use lex/Yacc to filter?? From
other ( unskilled as far as I think because of
     all the pronblems they had ) guys and a project I remember that the
code exploded when using lex/Yacc. It was
     translated into C that was NOT understandable anymore. I havn't looked
at the ethereal code nor I think that I will
     understand it now -- so it's a more academical question to you.
 

> Vänliga Hälsningar / Have a nice day
> 
Ralf Schneider
TSD Support
mailto:Ralf.Schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx