Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] What is "File->Save Highlighted" menu item for?

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From: "Ulf Lamping" <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:50:08 +0100
Guy Harris  schrieb am 08.12.03 10:36:53:
>
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:31:38AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > Could someone explain to me, what the "File->Save Highlighted" menu
> > item is useful for? Please keep in mind, that this menu item is somewhat
> > very uncommon, and even worse, I don't have a clue, what it will really
> > do!
>
> I'll let Richard Sharpe explain when it's useful.
>
> What it does is, at least as I understand it, save, in raw binary form,
> the bytes that are selected in the hex dump pane. For example, if you
> select bytes with the values FF 46 4F 4F and select that, the file to
> which you save will have a 0xFF followed by "FOO" in it.
>

Hmm, that sounds to me like the first export function, so we should put this into a new submenu item? What about putting this into:

File->Export->Raw Packet Data (Of Selected Area)

Putting this into an export submenu makes it more obvious, that this is a special function compared to the normal "Save" or "Save As" functions.

> > I can't see, why this shouldn't be included in the "File->Save
> > As"/"File->Save" menu items, using something like a new "Save only
> > selected packets" or "Save only highlighted packets" option.
>
> It's very different from the "save packets in capture file format"
> functionality you get with "File->Save {As}".

Well, after you explained the functionality behind this, that's obvious :-)

Regards, ULFL

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