["Allan Clarke" <clarke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Message: 7
>Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:22:42 +0200 (CEST)
>From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Access to generalized dissecting
>To: Ethereal development <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Message-ID: <20060327221933.R63328-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Man, you desperately need to look at tethereal. It's text mode
ethereal!
>BTW: Maybe you'll get more feedback in the ethereal users mailing list.
>
>Good luck,
>Jaap

Tethereal does simple filtering only. I need to be able to convert the
entire contents of captures to another format. Tethereal takes a short
filter expression on the command line; my filter expression (if it even
can be expressed as a filter) would be pages and pages long.

I need access to the data just after its been decoded. To me, this looks
like a development task, not an end user solution. My main problem is
that if I access the binary capture directly, I have come up with the
decoding logic myself. If I use an exported format (XML or
print-to-file), it takes too long to dig through the data.

:(

Thanks for the reply, Jaap.

Allan