[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 05:05:42PM +0200, Christophe Tronche wrote:
> I've got a lot of header fields (about 370 of them). To keep things
> manageable, I've put them in a text file, with a short Perl script
> (very specific to my needs) to create the register info and variable
> declarations in two .h files, then #included in the packet-x11.c file
> (I remember having seen this kind of things discussed before).

What does the Perl script use as input?

People may well add more fields to the X11 dissector if they add support
for X11 extensions, so the script might be useful to others.