Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Bits 'n' pieces

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From: Neil Hunter <neil.hunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:47:20 +0100 (BST)
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:

> Except, by "FT_NSTRING", I meant a string that has an initial byte that represents
> the length. But I believe Guy is working on a solution. So, we'll have:
> 
> A string class that correlates to a C string... NUL-terminated.
> A string class with a predetermined length (for your dissector)
> A string class with a prefixed length byte (I'm sure some dissector needs it).

Ah ok, I thought the N was similar to strncpy, etc.

Sounds good though.

Cheers,
  Neil

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