Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RE: [Ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal/epan s trutil.c

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:17:19 -0800

On Feb 5, 2004, at 5:22 AM, Anders Broman (TN/EAB) wrote:


Is there a good reason for having it output as octal ?
Historical, mainly - non-printable characters are displayed as C escapes, and C had octal escapes before it had hex escapes, so old-timers are more used to the octal escapes. 


wouldn't it make more sense to use hexadecimal as in the "byte view" ?


We could, showing 0xF9 as \xF9 rather than \371.