On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Guy Harris wrote: > 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.
It's useful for those cases where you are trying to understand portions of a packet or writing tools etc for other projects. There are many places where blobs are included in packets, and this feature allows you to extract a whole piece of a protocol to a file and run other tools over it. The idea was suggested by Andrew Tridgell who wanted to be able to extract the NDR for DCE-RPC so he could run the tools he is developing in Samba over a bunch of NDR to see if he handles it correctly. Since we have vague hopes of actually generating Ethereal dissectors from the NDR as well, this will form a useful facility for incrementally handling new RPC interfaces. Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com _______________________________________________ Ethereal-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev
