On Nov 19, 2003, at 1:51 PM, Tony Scarola wrote:
Okay... Is this (writing a dissector) something a "non programmer" can do?
In the literal sense, no, because the act of writing a dissector is programming (writing C code).
However, if "non-programmer" just means "somebody whose job title doesn't say something such as 'programmer' or 'software engineer'", a "non-programmer" unafraid of writing C code might be able to write one.
We don't have any mechanisms to, for example, turn a higher-level description of packets into a dissector.
And if so, are there any instructions available for writing a dissector?
About all we have is
1) various "README" files in the "doc" subdirectory of the Ethereal source
and
2) source code to existing dissectors.
