Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Copy selected text from frame(s) to clipboard

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From: "Martin Regner" <martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:05:26 +0100
Martin Regner wrote:
<I use to print the frame (or sometimes the complete capture) to a text file by using the the menu item "Mark Frame" and then <"File/Print... Format: (x) Plain Text , Print to: (x) File,  (x) Print detail, (x) Print hex data, (x) Suppress unmarked frames" and <select a file name.
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<This method is working, but is a bit annoying.
<A "Print summary" can also be very useful sometimes.
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<I have been thinking about implementing a "File/Print Packet to File" that prints the current packet to a specific file
<with detailed data and hex data. The file name should be configurable from settings.
<However I have not looked on that part of the code yet to see how much work it is to implement this and there are
<some other things I'm working on right now.

I noticed that the functionality I wanted is almost already there except for printing the hex data.

It is possible to configure the file where to print packet in Preferences/Printing... and then specify Format: (x) Plain text and Print to: (x) File. 
So I just configured the file path to be a file on my Windows desktop.

The "File/Print frame" menu item will then print the packet to that file and it's easy to copy it to a mail.
So it's just adding a possibility to also print the hex data I would want (another preference setting) and maybe also a possibility to configure whether to append or overwrite if there already is a file with that name.