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

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 8, 2003, at 7:01 AM, Biot Olivier wrote:

> I'd propose to use "File -> Export" as menu item, and then let the 
> user pick
> an option from a list (radio button): selected frames, selected frame,
> selected data in frame  (or something like that). You could even add an
> option having either the value "export to bytes in network-order" 
> (default),
> "export as hex" or "export as (what we call the byte view)".

Perhaps, although should "File->Export" be used for exporting 
*different* sorts of things?  Exporting frames^H^H^H^H^H^Hpackets in 
their entirety is one thing - and, just as we have several options for 
"File->Print" and "File->Save As" to control which packets to 
print/save, we could have those options to control which packets to 
export - but saving part of the packet data seems to be a different 
sort of operation to me.

> Do you see XML output as a Save option or as an Export option?

I see it as a "(Save|Export) Dissection" option, just as I see what's 
currently implemented as "print (as text) to a file)" as a 
"(Save|Export} Dissection" option.  I see "save" as saving raw packet 
data, rather than saving a dissection of that data.