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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Inevitable newbie dissector question

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:17:20 -0800
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:00:07PM -0000, Bond, Peter wrote:
> Having read and understood ch4 of the dev guide - "Writing a new dissector
> by example" - could some kind soul point me towards a guide to writing a
> dissector?

The only guides are:

	1) the developer's guide, which you found;

	2) the source code to other dissectors, as Richard Sharpe noted;

	3) the various README files in the "doc" directory of the
	   Ethereal source tree.