Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] SQL patch

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:58:51 -0800

On Oct 30, 2003, at 1:49 PM, Jason House wrote:

I did mean "dump every field for that protocol" ... the harder problem?

Hard for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the set "every field for that protocol" changes over time; a dissector might be enhanced to add new fields, or might be changed to, for example, break a flags field into individual fields for individual bits in that field.