My thinking was that users whose TSAPs are generally printable strings might
want to force the display as strings. In my operational environment, we only
have byte-type TSAPs: are there any COTP users who would want to force a
string representation? The dissector now always adds both string and byte
representation to the tree; one is always hidden.
If not, I will change as Guy suggests.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:gharris@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 May 2004 08:54
> To: Ethereal development
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] COTP TSAP fields
>
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:32:26PM +0100,
> matthew.bradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > * I have added a new preference option to the dissector,
> tsap_display that
> > has three settings: auto, string or bytes. If the option is
> set to default,
> > then the choice of which field to make hidden will be
> determined by the "is
> > it ASCII and printable" routine. If 'string', then it will
> always be the
> > cotp.src-tsap-bytes and cotp.dst-tsap-bytes that hidden; if
> 'bytes' then it
> > will always be cotp.src-tsap and cotp.dst-tsap bytes that
> are hidden. The
> > default is 'auto'.
>
> Is there a case where "string" would give the right answer and "auto"
> wouldn't - i.e., a place where the TSAP should be displayed as ASCII
> even though not all the bytes in it are ASCII characters?
>
> If not, then only "auto" and "bytes" would be needed.
>
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