Thank you again Guy. I have enough to do and will leave the C programming to
the programmers (or those unafraid of writing in it).
Take care,
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris
To: Tony Scarola
Cc: 'ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
Sent: 11/19/2003 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] TCP "Data" ?
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.
