Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] IDL file and matching GIOP log

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From: Frank Singleton <frank.singleton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:36:09 -0500
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > 2. je6.log - A logfile
> 
> Presumably meaning "a capture"; I think of a "logfile" as a text file
> logging messages - we call captures of network traffic "captures".
> 
Yes, a capture file.

> I guess "echo.idl" itself would go into the "doc" directory, along with
> a note in "doc/README.idl2eth" mentioning that it's a sample IDL file,
> and noting that there's a capture for that protocol on the Ethereal Web
> site in the "Sample Captures section.
> 

I will update doc/README.idl2eth

> 
> > module Penguin {
> >
> >
> >   interface Echo {
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> Should either of *those* names, rather than the name of the file, be
> used as the protocol name by "ethereal_be.py", so that you don't get the
> protocol name changing if the file name changes?

I have had similar thoughts.. to make it the name of the 
"top level" module.  Maybe the next patch .....

/Frank

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