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Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Proposed change to tethereal hex dump format

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From: Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 23:25:07 +0200
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 23:17
> To: Peter Kjellerstedt
> Cc: 'Ashok Narayanan'; ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Proposed change to tethereal hex dump format
> 
> > > 0000  00 10 7b 2c 78 c3 00 10 7b 2c 78 d5 08 00 45 00   ..{,x...{,x...E.
> > > 0010  00 74 46 53 00 00 ff 2e 5a e9 0a 01 03 10 0a 01   .tFS....Z.......
> > > 0020  03 0e 10 02 e4 67 ff 00 00 60 00 0c 01 01 e6 00   .....g...`......
> > > 0030  00 01 11 00 00 0a 00 0c 03 01 0a 01 03 10 00 00   ................
> > 
> > This is more than 79 characters per line
> 
> My xterm is 80 characters wide, and even with the 2 levels of "> ", it
> still fits in the window; the width is
> 
> 	4 (for the offset)
> 
> 	2 (white space separator)
> 
> 	48 (2 digits + one space, times 16 for 16 bytes)
> 
> 	3 (white space separator
> 
> 	16 (ASCII text for 16 bytes)
> 
> which is 73 bytes.

Well, I guess I cannot count ;)

Though, my comment about being able to read more than one
explicit format still stands.

//Peter