Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Enhancement Request - Display as EBCDIC

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From: "Pierre Goyette" <pierre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:17:49 -0500
There are a number of us who need to trace and analyze traces from IBM
systems such as S/OS and OS/400 where the data on the wire is EBCDIC and
not ASCII.

Some products out there such as the older NetXRay and Sniffer allow you
to right-click on the Packets Bytes pane and 'Display as ASCII' or
'Display as EBCDIC'.

Could Ethereal be enhanced such that when you Right-Click on the Packet
Bytes pane, two menu options are added:

	Display as ASCII
	Display as EBCDIC

This option could be in the preferences so that it doesn't need to be
done for each packet.

I can provide the master IBM tables to use to translate the data from
ASCII to EBCDIC for most code pages.

Any comments are appreciated.

Sincerely,

Pierre Goyette
Senior Director, R&D
Connectivity Products
Hummingbird Ltd.