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

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From: Jaime Fournier <jafour1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:23:52 -0800 (PST)
Or we could leave the table creation up to the user,
and just use something like the -z
"proto,colinfo,foo,foo" to specify exactly what they
wanted to print out. And then the format of the field
would be handled by ethereal already, and the db would
have to be setup to accept it.


--- Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 


=====
Jaime Fournier

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